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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
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....
Europe needs a Green New Deal
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...
It's time for a Green New Deal
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...
The need for climate bonds
This letter appeared in the Guardian today: The risible inadequacy of the government’s £40m “extra” spending on flood defences (Cameron’s £40m flood money criticised as ‘sticking plaster’, 4 January) means that it’s time to seriously address how to find the countless...