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!

28 April 2013

Solidarity Economy in Brazil

One of our most stimulating meetings during the Latin American tour was at the social economy incubator (ITCP: Incubadora Tecnologica de Co-...

24 April 2013

Greens Celebrate EU Policy to Control Tax Havens

Readers of this blog will remember Green MEP Sven Giegold as a staunch campaigner against the excesses of the finance industry and for his...

19 April 2013

When is A Free Market Not a Free Market?

We have a joke in the South-West Green Party along the lines of the Monty Python sketch about the Romans but ours revolves around the ques...

16 April 2013

Of Land and Liberation in Bahia

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...

14 April 2013

Thatcher is Dead: May Thatcherism Follow

This is a guest post from Chris Hart of Lancaster Green Party It has been a slightly surreal week, partly because a fifth week of dry, ...

7 April 2013

Over-Consumption Sampa-style

The city where I am writing this has 11 million people. Were it not for the fact that I have been teaching in London for the past year I a...

5 April 2013

Lessons from Porto Alegre

Having come half way across the world to learn about participatory budgeting it was rather a disappointment to learn that it was now a sha...

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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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