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Beyond state capitalism: The commons economy in our lifetimes
Article / 13th September 2017In considering the essential problem of how to produce and distribute material wealth, virtually all of the great economists in Western history have ignored the significance of the commons—the shared resources of nature and society that people inherit, create and utilize.
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.
Climate migrants might reach one billion by 2050
Article / 7th September 2017Imagine a world with as many as one billion people facing harsh climate change impacts resulting in devastating droughts and/or floods, extreme weather, destruction of natural resources, in particular lands, soils and water, and the consequence of severe livelihoods conditions, famine and starvation.
‘It’s a slow death’: the world’s worst humanitarian crisis
Article / 7th September 2017The United Nations has called the situation in Yemen the world’s largest humanitarian crisis, with more than 10 million people who require immediate assistance. And the situation could become even worse.
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
Fighting famine: 'Unprecedented crisis' putting 20 million people at risk, warns UN agency
News / 15th August 2017Twenty million people risk dying of hunger in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and the north-east of Nigeria, including 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition, the United Nations food relief agency said, spotlighting today its worldwide campaign to fight famine.
The economic crash, ten years on
Article / 14th August 2017There is still hope of restoring finance to the role of servant to, and not master of, economies and regions. But for that to happen the public must realise that citizens can exercise economic power over global financial markets. The people must lead, so that leaders can follow, writes Ann Pettifor for Red Pepper magazine.
Reversing inequality: Unleashing the transformative potential of an equitable economy
Report / 14th August 2017A new report explains how the rules governing the US economy are tipped in favour of asset owners over wage earners, and offers solutions to transform our system. Authored by Chuck Collins and published by the Institute of Policy Studies and the Next System Project.
Circular economy isn’t a magical fix for our environmental woes
Blog / 14th August 2017To truly flourish, the circular economy needs to be part of a bigger effort to tackle economic growth, wasteful consumerism and undemocratic power structures in the global economy. It needs to be geared to the real needs of all people, rather than the excessive consumption of a few, writes Micha Narberhaus and Joséphine von Mitschke-Collande.
Earth Overshoot Day: Mankind has already consumed more natural resources than the planet can renew throughout 2017
News / 2nd August 2017Humans have already used up their allowance for water, soil, clean air and other resources on Earth for the whole of 2017.