by Richard | Sep 4, 2017 | General
All ideas ideas have their moments. Some of them are pivotal. The trouble is knowing when those pivotal tipping points arrive. Post Hurricane Harvey in the USA the Green New Deal is having one of its moments. The New York Times ran an article last week by Rebecca...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | General
This letter was written by Colin Hines and was published in the Guardian on 12 June 2017: Sorry Brenda from Bristol, but another election looms, and this time a progressive alliance of Labour, the Lib Dems, the SNP, Plaid and the Greens need to get their policy ducks...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | General
This article is co-authored by Richard Murphy and has been re-posted from the Tax Research blog. It was posted there on 12 June 2017: In July 2008 I was one of the authors of what a group of us called the Green New Deal. It was a plan to revitalise and transform the...
by admin | Jun 21, 2017 | General
This article is co-authored by Ann Pettifor and Jeremy Smith and has been re-posted from the Prime Economics blog. It was posted there on 10 June 2017: After an exhausting and successful national campaign, it is hard for campaign strategists to think of next steps....
by admin | Sep 6, 2016 | General
The FT reports this morning that: The European Central Bank has passed the €1tn mark for its controversial purchases of government bonds, putting pressure on policymakers to address the scarcity of available assets when they meet in Frankfurt this week. Three...
by admin | Jul 26, 2016 | General
Larry Elliott wrote this in the Guardian newspaper yesterday: Hammond has apparently given some licence by the prime minister to be radical with fiscal policy and should use it. Investment by the private sector has been weak since the Great Recession and is likely to...
