Tag Archives: degrowth

Could Labour implement a post-growth economy?

Posted on 28 November, 2017 by eljubilado

Here is the full version of the article published, in rather truncated form today, on Left Foot Forward. I will be posting a fully referenced extended version in the near future. pdf version of the full text Could Labour implement … Continue reading →

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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge – revised version

Posted on 3 November, 2017 by eljubilado

Here is the revised version of my working paper, “After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge“.  I’m grateful to those who have offered encouragement and constructively critical comments.  This new version, Has numerous improvements to the text and further references to … Continue reading →

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Brief notes on Catalonia

Posted on 26 October, 2017 by eljubilado

Having friends in Barcelona and liking the city and region, as well as Spain in general, the situation in Catalonia causes me a lot of concern.  A lot of the commentary here oversimplifies the situation with some on the left, … Continue reading →

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After peak capitalism: the livelihood challenge.

Posted on 1 August, 2017 by eljubilado

Note: there is now a revised version.  See this later post. This is my new working paper. It attempts to deal with the question of peak capitalism and ecological crisis on two levels – the post-industrial wastelands of the core … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Corbyn, Prime Minister. What could go wrong?

Posted on 16 June, 2017 by eljubilado

How things change! Within the space of a few weeks, there is now a real possibility of a Labour government with a left wing leadership. That is the result of the snap UK General Election that resulted, not in the … Continue reading →

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Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative

Posted on 2 October, 2016 by eljubilado

This is a short post to note Corbyn’s victory in the Labour leadership re-election and ask some fundamental questions.  Despite some misgivings in the last post, I’m delighted.  This is all about rejecting the politics and economics of the last … Continue reading →

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Progress as a trap.

Posted on 12 February, 2016 by eljubilado

Craig Bennett is the Chief Executive of Friends of the Earth UK. Last night (11/2/2016) he gave a lecture at Manchester Business School, “What is Progress: how are we doing and where next?” It was an interesting topic for a … Continue reading →

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Corbynomics: let’s be sceptical about the growth rhetoric.

Posted on 11 January, 2016 by eljubilado

“So all our emphasis and work and campaigning is about an expanding economy and investing in an expanding economy” Jeremy Corbyn, quoted by The Independent, 29 February 2016 “El socialismo puede llegar sólo en bicicleta.” Socialism can only arrive by … Continue reading →

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Jeremy Corbyn and the double struggle

Posted on 20 August, 2015 by eljubilado

Jeremy Corbyn‘s campaign for the Labour leadership is about doing things differently, about re-discovering the basic Labour values of social and economic justice, but in a way that harnesses the knowledge, commitment and energy of the many, in the changed … Continue reading →

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Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto

Posted on 7 May, 2015 by eljubilado

Responses to the Ecomodernist Manifesto (3/12/15:  I update this piece as new material comes in). I recently came upon An Ecomodernist Manifesto, and was staggered by the scale of its unwarranted assumptions and errors. It argues that the malign human … Continue reading →

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