by Andrew Simms | Mar 3, 2021 | Blog, General
Green New Deal Group member Andrew Simms makes the case for an ecological interest rate to bring the economy back into harmony with the biosphere. The case for an Ecological Interest Rate is published by the New Weather Institute, Prime Economics and the Rapid...
by Richard Murphy | Feb 28, 2021 | Blog, General
Writing ahead of the Spring budget, Green New Deal Group member Richard Murphy explores what needs to happen to ensure that Green bonds contribute to a Green New Deal. According to the Sunday Times this is going to happen in the budget: I suspect that the figures are...
by Ruth Potts | Feb 24, 2021 | Events, General
According to Oxford University, a green recovery creates most jobs while recent research from London Economics shows that investment in increasing the pay of healthcare workers would cost only one fifth of its headline price tag. A green recovery will be vital if we...
by Colin Hines | Feb 15, 2021 | General
In a letter to the Guardian, Richard Murphy and Colin Hines make the case for a Green New Deal to overcome the social and employment effects of the Covid pandemic. There is no better example of what Larry Elliott perceptively terms “capitalism for dummies”, whereby...
by Colin Hines | Jan 14, 2021 | General
Writing for the Green Alliance blog, Green New Deal Group member Colin Hines makes the case for a green recovery, and a new way to fund it: Last year was certainly the ultimate grim “Events dear boy, events” year. On the brighter side, despite Covid having drained...
by Andrew Simms | Jan 7, 2021 | General, Media, Other coverage, The Green New Deal
Each year the Financial Times investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. Green New Deal Group member, and New Weather Institute co-founder Andrew Simms, shared his thoughts on prospects for the year to come. The language of...
