Gaian Economics

All other green campaigns become futile without tackling the economic system and its ideological defenders. Economics is only dismal because there are not enough of us making it our own. Read on and become empowered!

24 April 2007

Out of sight but not out of mind

Just as most economic activity is now negative rather than positive, so most of the economic value of the economy is debt rather than credit...

22 April 2007

Tough on the causes of violence?

News of the shooting at Virginia Tech drowned out the booming death toll from Iraq this week. The common thread is not hard to find: US soci...

18 April 2007

Tracing our roots in space and time

A recent article in the Guardian noted that Britons' two favourite leisure pursuits are genealogy and gardening. This encouraged me grea...

13 April 2007

The Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lesson 2

Assumption 2. There are so many firms in the industry that each one . . . has no power whatsoever to affect the price of the product The sec...

6 April 2007

The Assumptions of Perfect Competition: Lesson 1

At the heart of the justification of the supremacy of the market system within academic economics lies the theory of perfect competition, so...

3 April 2007

House price boom: who benefits?

As with the public debt, private debts also enable those who lend money for interest to extract money from those who are forced to borrow i...

28 March 2007

Rents and tears

I recently had the pleasure of sharing a platform with David Boyle of the New Economics Foundation, and we will be together again on Thursda...

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Molly: I am economics speaker for the green party although blogs represent my personal views. I have a PhD in economics and work in co-operative research as well as trying to build up bioregional economies

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