University economics teaching to be overhauled
This was the headline of a report in the Guardian of a conference hosted by the Treasury in London ‘in answer to critics who argue that economists failed to spot Read More
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2013/11/17
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2013/09/26
Another Honour for Polly Higgins
In recognition of her work to create a new body of Earth Law, international environmental lawyer and activist, Polly Higgins, has been appointed to the Arne Naess Chair for Global Read More
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2013/09/15
Economic Justice
A reviewer of The Science of Economics in Network Review, the Journal of the Scientific and Medical Network, wrote ‘The editor of The Science of Economics, Raymond Makewell, has done Read More
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2013/09/02
Review in International Journal of Environmental Studies
This analysis [The Traumatised Society] integrates many data and many explanations to attack private land ownership as the basis of current economics. Harrison argues that cultural genocide … has afflicted Western Read More
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2013/07/31
Can LVT Save Us?
The Land Value Tax (LVT) is a “radical” form of taxation first proposed by Henry George in his 1879 Progress and Poverty (see What If Marx Got it Wrong?). What George proposes Read More
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2013/07/14
Capitalism for the poor, Socialism for the rich
In an article in the Guardian George Monbiot posed the question: ‘Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?’ He explained that Read More
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2013/06/26
Working for a sane alternative
At the Eastern Economic Conference in New York, Alanna Hartzok, Founder and Co-Director, Earth Rights Institute, delivered a presentation entitled, “A Tribute to the New Economics of James Robertson”. He Read More
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2013/05/20
Fred Harrison a finalist in the People’s Book Prize
Fred Harrison’s latest book, The Traumatised Society, has been voted into the finals of The Non-fiction section of the People’s Book Prize and so gone through to the next round Read More
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2013/04/17
The importance of the Law of Ecocide for a healthy planet
In an interview with Marcin Gerwin of the Permaculture Research Institute of Australia Polly Higgins, author of Eradicating Ecocide and Earth is our Business, explained why it is necessary to Read More
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2013/04/04
A Principled Approach to Economics
“To discover of the conditions which allow every individual to find a fulfilling life is the true goal of Economics” In The Science of Economics Raymond Makewell presents the three-year Read More
