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!

29 April 2009

Would you buy a used economy . . .?

I am faintly tempted to make some sort of connection between the budget and the scrappage scheme, which might get as far as a joke if it wer...

The Peasants are Revolting

Simon Fairlie wrote an excellent article in The Land a couple of issues back. His focus was the need for a rehabilitation of manual labour. ...

24 April 2009

Busted Budget

This has been an extraordinary budget season. Our economic destiny for the next 50 years is being changed and, because of the way the red, y...

18 April 2009

A New Ethic of Consumption

Let's start with a cliche: you are what you eat. I've been interested by the growing number of people who have food allergies and di...

9 April 2009

Plus ca change . . .

Now the dust has settled, what are we to make of the G20 conference? Such high hopes; so little real achievement. When the whole process beg...

3 April 2009

The Paradox of Thrift

It was Keynes's view that 'Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually th...

1 April 2009

G20-20: No Vision

Yes, I know it's tempting to smash things up. I can't remember the last time I felt so frustrated as when I watched that glass windo...

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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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