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RIP Eric Hobsbawm…
Historian, marixist commentator and intellectual Eric Hobsbawm has died aged 95. His is a name that has has stayed with me from being a student 25 years ago- someone who was prepared to look at history...
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Trickle down economics; economic lie number one…
The first of a little mini series about Capitalism that has been nagging at me for a while… There was an article in out local paper last week- Argyll and Bute council, like most of our councils, has to...
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The false-god of economic growth…
Interesting article in the Guardian today about this book; Interesting title- considering discussions about apocalyptic end times obsessiveness in some parts of the Christian world. A timely reminder...
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Ecomonomic lie number 3- austerity affects us all…
Back to my little mini series about economics. Don’t expect deep learned insights- I did study economics as part of a social science degree 25 years ago, but I was a very poor student. However, there...
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Economic lie number 4; inequality is good for the system…
The whole Capitalist system is dependent on aspiration, or so we are told. Our Chancellor of the Exchequer has just heralded his 2013 budget as something for an ‘aspiration nation’- seeking to help...
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Economics students rebel…
I tweeted this story a couple of days ago. Then I heard about the revolting students of Economics from the University of Manchester , who have accused their lecturers of blinkered adherence to the very...
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Economic lie no. 5; competition can solve all our problems…
Some ideas are so central to our world view that everyone just assumes them to be fact. The domination of so called free market economics have forced quite a few of these kind of ideas into our...
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Economic lie no.6; inequality of wealth creates incentive and effort…
(The last posts in this series are here and here. Post no.4 dealt with similar territory. These posts are part of an on going attempt to search for alternatives to the economic status quo, which I...
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Who wants to be a billionaire?
It is official. The UK has more Billionaires per head of population than any other country. London alone has 72. Makes you proud to be British doesn’t it? The nation where the rich get richer (because...
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To succeed is to destroy ourselves; economic growth and fossil fuels…
We all kind of know that the system of economic growth we are hooked on is not sustainable. However, it is so pervasive in how we understand the world that envisioning life without it is almost...
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Time to look to the left…
In the wake of the Referendum debate up here, we are all wondering if the remarkable upsurge of political engagement can actually lead to real change, and what new/old political or social movements...
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Let’s talk about inequality; blog action day 2014…
We used to talk about equality a lot in the UK. After the war there was a political consensus around the need to flatten inherited hierarchies of opportunity, health and living standards. I was a...
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