Tag Archives: economy

Notes for the New Year from Plague Island

Posted on 31 December, 2021 by Mark Burton

Four Horsemen of Apocalypse, by Viktor Vasnetsov. Painted in 1887. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons. Today, in the UK we live on a plague island (with some of the highest rates of Covid infections and deaths, globally), politically isolated from … Continue reading →

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Things I’ve written lately, mostly elsewhere.

Posted on 17 December, 2019 by Mark Burton

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 →

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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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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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Platitudes, positions, policies and principles.

Posted on 27 March, 2017 by eljubilado

Platitudes, positions, policies and principles: what can we learn from Gorton’s selection meeting? I attended the selection meeting for the Labour Party’s Gorton by-election last week. There were five candidates, a short-list selected by a 5-person national Labour party panel. … 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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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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Malmö: re-imagining the city

Posted on 14 June, 2015 by eljubilado

Our cities have grown up as the result of a number of factors. Manchester, with its origins in the Roman period, was a relatively small centre until particular geographical, historical, social and economic factors coincided to make it the world’s … 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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