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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
It's fine to print money so long as it's not for people
This letter was published in the Guardian this morning: Memo to Lord Adonis in his new role as adviser on infrastructure projects: read Zoe Williams’ article on the use of quantitative easing for green and social investment (It’s fine to print money, so long as it’s...
QE for Europe
The Guardian published this letter today: Larry Elliott is right to say that rather than crushing Greece’s economy and democracy, there should instead be a massive debt write-off and a return to sustainable economic activity in that cruelly ruined country (Condemned...
US presidential candidate backs the Green New Deal
US Green Party Presidential Candidate Dr Jill Stein has backed the Green New Deal – which she looks to have lifted wholesale from the work of this group. In an interview with Elle magazine she said: The Green New Deal is an emergency solution to two big crises. One is...
Caroline Lucas: We need to invest in a positive, green and socially just future
This article was in the New Statesmen this week, authored by Green New Deal member Caroline Lucas MP: Next week the Conservatives will present their first Budget as a majority Government. The context is grim. Progress on child poverty, surely a bellwether for good...
How to get the economy working for all of us
This is the latest Green New Deal letter in the Guardian: Central banks printing more money through quantitative easing do not risk hyper-inflation. The US, UK, Japan and recently the EU have printed or plan to print about a staggering £5tn of QE money and yet...
How Green Infrastructure Quantitative Easing would work
Quantitative Easing is back on the global economic and political agenda. The growing threat of deflation has meant that Japan has just reintroduced QE, and the European Central Bank has begun its own programme to deal with the serious economic problems of the...