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Published in: ourEconomyCombatting climate change doesn't mean abandoning growth – but it does require tough choices
With the right combination of policies, we can increase living standards and mitigate global warming at the same time.
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Published in: ourEconomy: Opinion'Development' is colonialism in disguise
Other worlds are possible - the Pluriverse is breathing.
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Published in: ourEconomyIn defence of degrowth
The climate movement and socialist movements must come together to build a new progressive movement.
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Published in: ourEconomyMicrofinance has been a nightmare for the global south. Sri Lanka shows that there is an alternative
Women’s groups and the co-operative movement are leading the way out of the debt trap.
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Published in: ourEconomyBrand You: how employability came to dominate our lives
By turning our leisure hours into work, employability is concealing a broken labour market and damaging our mental health.
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Published in: ourEconomyShould we feed hungry children, or the war machine?
Every dollar of public money financing US militarism abroad is a dollar that could fight hunger, homelessness, or...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe G7 was a joke. Three degrees warming isn’t
We need a European Green New Deal that delivers justice on a scale to match the threat of environmental breakdown....
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Published in: ourEconomyBook review: The economics of arrival
The fruits of growth are starting to rot. Katherine Trebeck and Jeremy Williams have plenty of ideas for a grown up economy.
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Published in: ourEconomyA universal basic income in “funny money”? This could seriously work
Local alternative currencies could be the way to create an income floor and reshape the economy at the same time.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe Financial Times is right – Labour’s ownership funds will transfer wealth and power
Democratising the corporation and empowering workers is an essential part of moving beyond neoliberalism.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe degrowth delusion
To abandon growth is to declare an end to progress. Socialists must reject the politics of eco-Thatcherism.
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Published in: ourEconomyBook review: Feeling Family by Yv E. Nay
In times of neoliberal precarity, should we be fighting for marriage equality or the end of the nuclear family?
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Published in: ourEconomyThe burning of the Amazon is just the tip of the iceberg
Plundering nature is the norm within our legal and economic systems. Our survival depends on charting a new course.
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Published in: ourEconomyFalse hopes for a Green New Deal
If the 'Green New Deal' is our best answer to the climate crisis, then we have no answer to the climate crisis.
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Published in: ourEconomyWhat the Amazon fires tell us about the geopolitics of the climate emergency
Two climate denying Presidents, growing demand for soya in China and deforestation in Brazil have created the...
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Published in: ourEconomyThe Indonesia-Netherlands tax treaty is one of Indonesia’s biggest tax leaks, new research shows
Public services and the people who depend on them are losing out to tax avoiding multinationals.
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Published in: ourEconomyNow is not the time to defend Britain’s democracy – we need a democratic revolution
The ancient institutions of the British state are well past their sell-by date. Only a radical shake-up can resolve...
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Published in: ourEconomyPreparing for the next crisis
A new ourEconomy series focusing on preparing for the next economic crisis.
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Published in: ourEconomyBuyouts, not bailouts: public banks as a solution to the next crisis
When the next crisis hits we must reject corporate bailouts and demand a permanent public takeover of failing banks.
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Published in: ourEconomyWanted: writers from the global south
Are you a journalist, writer or researcher based in the global south who is passionate about building a fairer...