Showing posts with label bioregional economy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bioregional economy. Show all posts
28 September 2013

How Public is Public Money?

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Of the many deceitful slogans which the Conservatives used when they came to power the 'bonfire of the quangos' has perhaps had t...
2 September 2013

The Gypsy Rover, the Norman Yoke and the Land Value Tax

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I have always loved the folk-song The Whistling Gypsy. In fact, I like it so much that I have been known to sing it in those situatio...
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23 July 2013

Rewilding our Economy?

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I went to see the second part of the documentary Wild Carpathia at the Romanian Embassy last night. It was a delightful event, although t...
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16 April 2013

Of Land and Liberation in Bahia

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It is quite clear that a more locally based self-provisioning economy would require a change in the pattern of land ownership from that whi...
20 March 2013

Budget Day: Time for Some Radical Proposals

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Today is budget day and the desperate economic crisis suggests the urgent need for some radical policy proposals. Unusually, the BBC has a...
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14 March 2013

Embracing the Yoghurt Culture

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I have it on the best authority that Bulgaria is being overrun by migrants. My authority is Maria Nedeva , a sociologist of science at the ...
11 March 2013

Planning for Sale

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Today's revelation that local councillors are selling their knowledge of the planning process to those who would devastate our countrysi...
6 March 2013

Land for People and for Food

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Biofuels are back in the news: today MPs will decide on whether to continue to offer subsidies to crops that can be burned in power stati...
13 February 2013

Incredible Edible

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In another quirky twist it turns out that the first identified source of horseflesh in the UK is in the Yorkshire town of Todmorden, which...
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22 January 2013

Of Resources and the Origins of War

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If, in response to the emerging detail on the horrors of the attack on the Algerian gas-plant, you have found yourself asking ‘What on...
5 January 2013

Evolution become Conscious

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Following up on my earlier post about 'joining the evolution', Michael Dunwell, my fellow green economist from the Forest of Dea...
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21 December 2012

Finding Your Place in Space

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In spite of the cultural dominance of the idea of 'science' and forming understandings on the basis of 'facts' it is clear...
13 November 2012

Modelling a New Economy

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Yesterday I received copies of my new book, The Bioregional Economy . This is always an exciting moment, and also a nerve-wracking one. In...
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27 July 2012

Understanding A Job-Creating Recession

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The strange paradox of the UK economy post-2008 is that figures for output and figures for employment do not match . While the numbers that ...
30 May 2012

Right or Left, or Right or Wrong?

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This morning I am going to do something I certainly never expected to do on this blog: agree with the business editor of the Daily Mail . Al...