The new reformation: 33 theses for an economics reformation
Marking the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s challenge to the established church, the New Weather Institute and campaign group Rethinking Economics,
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#SmogDay: remembering air pollution’s victims & clearing the air
Action: please call on MPs to sign Caroline Lucas’ #SmogDay early day motion for urgent action to clean the air
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Good and bad productivity
So much to worry about. And now the worry that preoccupies leader writers and politicians to the point of sleeplessness.
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Why people long for stories
“It takes a civilized man,” said George Bernard Shaw, “to be deeply moved by statistics.” The whole edifice of Fabian
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Milking it
Systemic corporate failures are leaving our glass of milk half empty… There’s a milk and butter shortage threatened, who would
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New: modern folk tales from top scientists, economists, ecologists & activists
Knock Twice: is a new collection of 25 modern folk tales for troubling times by a group of leading scientists, economists,
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Can any country opt-out of Google?
Nations may opt-out of the EU, and regions out of nations, but is corporate power inescapable? Lindsay Mackie reports on a
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Economic growth: the cost of money vs the price paid by planetary life support
The first media question raised in response to new economic growth figures is typically about resulting interest rates, but our
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Why climate change means more earthquakes and volcanoes
In a world distracted by political tremors Bill McGuire warns we are waking real, angry giants Too many people think
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The absent and violent corporation
Earlier this year my colleague David Boyle and I published a New Weather pamphlet called The Absent Corporation in which
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