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Tag Archives: economic growth
Note from a warming planet
In Manchester today, it is mild and sunny, like late September. Temperatures are unprecedentedly high in the UK and have been for days. I picked runner beans (painted lady) yesterday and achoacha (a frost tender cucumber relative) today. The beans … Continue reading
Posted in climate change, ecology, garden
Tagged climate change, economic growth, gardening
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Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.
I’m rather aware that I’ve been neglecting this blog lately. It’s not because I’ve been inactive, the opposite, in fact. So here is a list of the most important things I’ve written over the last year and a bit. “Properly” … Continue reading
Could Labour implement a post-growth economy?
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
Posted in climate change, ecology, economics, ideology
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, Labour Party, politics, steady state economics
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Labour again: Corbyn’s victory and the growth narrative
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
Posted in ecology, economics, ideology, politics
Tagged climate change, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, Labour Party, socialism
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Progress as a trap.
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
Posted in ecology, economics, thinkers
Tagged buen vivir, climate change, coloniality, degrowth, ecology, economic growth, economy, vivir bien
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Corbynomics: let’s be sceptical about the growth rhetoric.
“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
Action call! Consultation Paper on Non-economic Regulators: Duty to Have Regard to Growth | Steady State Manchester
Action call! Consultation Paper on Non-economic Regulators: Duty to Have Regard to Growth | Steady State Manchester. see this post on steadystatemanchester.net
Posted in economics
Tagged deregulation, economic growth, GDP growth, lock-in, neoliberalism
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