Banning nuclear weapons: the beginning
Blog / 6th October 2017Against all odds, 122 countries agreed in July to ban nuclear weapons. At the heart of the United Nations treaty is an explicit ethical goal: to protect peoples of the world from the humanitarian catastrophe that would ensue if nuclear weapons were employed.
A society beyond consumerism
Blog / 29th September 2017Does consumerism thrive on our discontentment? Tim Jackson previews his talk at the Resurgence Festival of Wellbeing
New publication: a strategic vision for the basic income movement
Blog / 20th September 2017The moral and practical case for implementing a basic income guarantee is well made—but what are the prospects for finally achieving this inspiring idea of ‘freedom from want’ for every person on Earth?
Quantitative easing for wealth redistribution
Blog / 13th September 2017Following the 2007-2008 global financial crisis and the Great Recession in its wake, the ‘new normal’ in monetary policy has been abnormal.
A tale of two 1 percents
Blog / 7th September 2017There is abundant prosperity in the United States – it is time we shared it, writes Ben Leet for Inequality.org