Ethical Economics Books and Research

Poverty is not Natural

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 03:14:01 +0000

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 upon the work of 19th-century American economist, Henry George. It was George who looked into the cause of wealth disparity during the Industrial Revolution. George is known for his 1879 classic book…

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Famous buildings don’t just document the past, they also tell the future

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Mon, 20 Sep 2021 09:09:29 +0000

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 are ancient works, like the Great Pyramids of Giza being used to celebrate the glory of the Egyptians pharaohs, or more recent creations like Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri…

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An Economy in harmony with the Environment

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:17:28 +0000

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. So what is the alternative? Reporting on the 1988 Conservative Party conference The Economist, in an article entitled ‘The Greening of Mrs Thatcher’, quoted her as stating: ‘No generation has a freehold on the…

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Demand for new crime of Ecocide

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 18 Jul 2020 09:23:59 +0000

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 been picked up by ‘Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel peace prizewinner [who] has joined Greta Thunberg and 150 celebrities and scientists calling on world leaders to make ecocide – the mass damage of nature – a criminal…

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BOOK REVIEW: How our Economy really works

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 06:28:42 +0000

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 at the University of Oxford. This puts him in the advantageous position of being able to apply a critique of mainstream economics in its own terms, something which most of us are unable to do. For those who have…

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Should the World Economic Forum prioritise Climate Change over Economics?

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Fri, 24 Jan 2020 09:37:41 +0000

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 called for a new “growth paradigm” that addresses the interconnectedness of socio-economic factors with climate change. In an article entitled ‘The Greening of Mrs Thatcher’, The Economist reported her as…

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Poverty is not Natural

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 09:42:24 +0000

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 government in power, the gap between rich and poor continues to increase, suggesting some common cause that is being overlooked. Nelson Mandela maintained in his 2005 Trafalgar Square address that ‘Like slavery and…

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Models of Fair Public Ownership

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 09:46:29 +0000

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 the period since the Second World War as having been a game of two halves. In Britain during the war, a social democratic narrative emerged, where the interests of society would be put first, in part to reward…

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How Our Economy Really Works

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 07:10:15 +0000

These questions have confronted developed economies in varying degrees for decades without resolution by governments of the right or left. It is the failure of economics, the author argues. Economists have long asserted that three factors of production, land, labour and capital, lie at the root of their subject. Yet in the development of the subject into theories and practical applications there…

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A legal duty of care for the Earth

SDkd9274hsDkue9 — Sat, 27 Apr 2019 07:14:15 +0000

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 age of 50. Her aim in making ecocide an international crime was to enable people like company chief executives and government ministers to be prosecuted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague for causing or…

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