Poverty is not Natural
Why is poverty and economic security not reducing amidst the enormous increased wealth we’ve seen on the planet so far? In Poverty is not Natural, the author George Curtis draws Read More
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2021/09/28
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2021/09/20
Famous buildings don’t just document the past, they also tell the future
It’s a well-known fact that the world’s most renowned construction projects, monuments and buildings have historically been built to celebrate something. To commemorate the past, in other words. Whether they Read More
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2020/08/09
An Economy in harmony with the Environment
Currently the growth model of economics, as measured by GDP, is on a collision course with environmental limits. The idea of endless growth is incompatible with what Nature can provide. Read More
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2020/07/18
Demand for new crime of Ecocide
According to a report in The Times (17/7/20), the campaign to make ‘ecocide’ an international crime at the International Criminal Court begun by Polly Higgins, who died last year, has Read More
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2020/02/14
BOOK REVIEW: How our Economy really works
The author, is, unusually for a supporter of land value taxation and free trade, a graduate in economics, having gained a first class honours degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics Read More
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2020/01/24
Should the World Economic Forum prioritise Climate Change over Economics?
In their Global Risks Report the World Economic Forum listed five environmental issues as the top risks to the global economy in 2020, overshadowing all other risks, including economic, and Read More
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2020/01/02
Poverty is not Natural
The first United Nations Sustainable Development Goal is to ‘End poverty in all its forms everywhere’, and yet regardless of whether there is a left wing, right wing or centrist Read More
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2019/10/24
Models of Fair Public Ownership
So often, the debate about public ownership is based on a narrative that sets the public interest against the private interest. In this debate in western democracies, one can characterise Read More
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2019/06/04
How Our Economy Really Works
Why does poverty still beset a large number of people, whilst others are grossly well-off?’ Why are house prices continuously rising much faster than inflation? Why do the majority of Read More
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2019/04/27
A legal duty of care for the Earth
Fifteen years ago Polly Higgins abandoned her career as a barrister to campaign for an international crime of ecocide. Sadly she died of cancer on Easter Sunday at the early Read More
