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!

30 June 2011

Resist Divide-and-Conquer Tactics

The Tory rhetoric over today's strike is a clear attempt to divide and conquer. We are told that the poor downtrodden taxpayer is subsid...

28 June 2011

Wales: A Co-operative Nation?

Since I'm a bit short of time I thought I would share a short speech I gave earlier today at a meeting in Cardiff Bay for the Assembly C...

24 June 2011

Market Myths: Perfect Information

The superiority of the market as a system of allocation for goods and services relies on a number of assumptions. It was the central theme o...

23 June 2011

Interest, Money, but No Employment for Keynesian Scholars

Keynes was an example of that rare thing: a sociable and entertaining economist. Not only was he married to a Russian ballerina, he was a me...

21 June 2011

Co-operation and the Wealth of Nations

John Restakis, Executive Director of the British Columbia Co-operative Association, is on a lecture tour of the UK as part of the events to...

20 June 2011

I Sat Down and Wept

The parallel being drawn between the failure of Lehman Brothers and the potential default of a sovereign nation makes clear the blurred natu...

16 June 2011

Chancellor Fails to Separate Retail and Commercial Banking

The loudest call for reform following the failure of the banking system in 2008 was that the risky activities undertaken by investment banks...

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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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