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Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog thread explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and the policy proposals and practical approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the interlinked crises in climate, nature and inequality.
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The challenge we are currently facing is unprecedented in its scale, nature and impact. Around the world governments are intervening in the economy in ways that would have once seemed unimaginable. This blog explores the responses to the pandemic emerging around the world, and explores the policy proposals and approaches that might see us emerge, re-set and equipped to respond to the crises in climate, nature and inequality
How we can save some of the jobs destroyed by rise of the machines
This letter was published in The Guardian on 10 August 2018: Kim and Nick Hoare’s heartfelt call for a cross-party action programme for tackling climate change is crucial (Letters, 9 August). Yet there is a way that the UK could contribute to substantially reducing...
The Green New Deal and automation
This letter was published in the Guardian on 4 May 2018: John Harris is right to say the left has articulated no comprehensive answer to the existing and future threats posed to employment by automation. Key to this must be prioritising labour-intensive sectors that...
Coming Soon: a Green New Deal 10 years after report
The Green New Deal group came together in 2007 because its members were all convinced that a huge economic downturn was imminent and that one answer to it would be a Green New Deal to fund green infrastructure that could help tackle climate change and generate, jobs...
Brexit offers an opportunity for the Green New Deal
Reposted from Tax Research UK and written by Green New Deal member Richard Murphy: The Guardian has something decidedly right in its editorial today, saying: When running for the Labour leadership, Jeremy Corbyn wanted a “people’s quantitative easing” to boost the...
Robots and the Green New Deal
This letter was in The Guardian on 26 November 2017: Your editorial on productivity and robots repeated the cliche that automation does cost jobs, but more are created. The problem with this is that the new jobs are frequently in different places from where they are...
QE is staggering on – and is in need of change
This letter was in the New Statesman (which is nicknamed the Staggers):