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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK needs a budget that meets the scale of the challenges we faceThe new chancellor should rewrite the rules of public spending to support investment in climate mitigation and adaptation.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionWhy wealth inequality is a feminist issueIf the UK government is serious about “levelling up”, it must take steps to tackle the lopsided ownership of wealth.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe UK’s new immigration policy is deeply flawed. But it can be fixed – here's howThree simple changes would address the most serious problems with the government's post-Brexit immigration policy.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow the cost of our clothes can be measured in human lives lostRecent factory fires in India show how the world’s biggest brands are still profiting from deadly working conditions.
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Published in: ourEconomyOPEN 2020: co-creating the new economyA two day conference in June will focus on developing practical solutions to co-create a collaborative, regenerative economy.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHuman rights, not corporate rightsHuman rights offer a powerful framework for challenging corporate hegemony and creating a more just and sustainable world.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionHow climate policy stops at the borderThe Port of Rotterdam boasts of its green credentials in the Netherlands but invests in fossil fuel mega projects abroad.
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Published in: ourEconomyThe race to slash ‘red tape’ in post-Brexit Britain has begun. How can it be resisted?A new wave of deregulation poses a serious threat to our health and the environment. Social movements must come...
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Published in: ourEconomyHow globalisation has informalised African womens’ livesWomen’s rising participation in the informal economy has seen an intensification rather than a reversal of gender inequality.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe movement to replace neoliberalism has lost a battle, but we can still win the warNow is not the time for despair. Neoliberalism is limping to its death, and it’s up to us to make sure that what...
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Published in: ourEconomyEconomics for millennials: an interview with Grace BlakeleyThe economist talks to Andrés Lomeña about power relations, feminism and what an economics designed by young people...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionTo tackle inequality, we need to start talking about where wealth comes fromIt's hardly surprising people think Britain is a meritocracy: the Thatcherite narrative on wealth creation has gone...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Independent Group failed because it tried to rescue a sinking shipToday would have been group's first birthday. But by clinging on to a dying political consensus, the splitters...
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Published in: ourEconomyYemen’s deadly ghost shipAn abandoned oil tanker with over a million barrels of oil on board is an environmental catastrophe waiting to happen.
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Published in: ourEconomyPsychedelics for systems change: could drugs help us save the planet?After being forced underground in the 1960s, today psychedelic drugs are having a renaissance. Scientists are only...
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Published in: ourEconomyLove and desire in a time of hopelessnessThe need for love and human connection is more important than ever. It must be rescued from the claws of capitalist logic.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionIndia should stop obsessing about GDP, and start focusing on what mattersIndia's economic slowdown is a cause for concern. But more economic growth is not the answer to India's problems.
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe ‘free market’ is a collection of dictatorships. Here’s how we create a genuinely free economyWorkplace democracy can help create an economy of values. But how can we move it forward?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe biodiversity crisis can’t be solved by the marketGreening our financial system is essential. But not everything can be shoehorned into the logic of finance.
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Published in: ourEconomyReimagining democratic public ownership for the twenty-first centuryA new transatlantic project will explore how new models of public ownership can shape the emerging commanding...