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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
Cutting the cost of PFI with People's QE
This was the lead Guardian letter on 27 September 2017: In your editorial (26 September) on John McDonnell’s proposal that PFI contracts be bought back by a future Labour government you suggest that any such action might be constrained by the need to persuade the...
Green spending could help rescue UK after debt crash
Colin Hines and Richard Murphy had this letter in the Guardian on 5 September: Zoe Williams is right: another credit crunch-induced “crash” is likely and the only affordable rescue package will be some form of quantitative easing (With Britain’s addition to debt,...
Time for a Green New Deal?
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...
Jeremy Corbyn must revisit and vigorously shake his people’s QE “money tree”
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...
It’s time for Labour to adopt the Green New Deal
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...
An Open Letter to Jeremy Corbyn: Labour needs to act fast
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....