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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):
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....
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):
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....