In the fourth of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation about how neoliberalism took hold in the UK in the 1980s. Weekly Economics Podcast on Twitter:...
How the West is being lost Oscar Wilde once said. “If there is one thing worse than being talked about it is not being talked about.” Donald Trump certainly seems to have taken his advice to heart in the US election campaign with his extreme views on immigration and...
In the third of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about our economic system, the difference between capitalism and neoliberalism and how neoliberalism came to...
Presentism is a modern stain. It is vehement in denying all explanations of now that go back in time, wanting to start anew with such passion that the past becomes trivial. Forgetting becomes less an explicit act and more an implicit elision brought about by massive...
Panama’s efforts to gain funding for standing forests roiled by indigenous opposition There isn’t a word or phrase in the Kuna language for “carbon trading,” and much less for something as complex as REDD+. Standing for Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and...
In the second of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast, Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation about how the once obscure ideas of theorist Friedrich Hayek moved from the fringe to the mainstream, ushering in...
The Collapse of Western Civilization Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway Columbia University Press, 2014 Terra Nova: Global Revolution and the Healing of Love Dieter Duhm Verlag Meiga Press, 2015 In 1972, the Club of Rome published a groundbreaking study titled The Limits...
One year ago I was presented with a copy of the book Justice Denied, authored by Dr. David Klatzow, undeniably one of the few independent forensic scientists I have ever met. I have known Dr. Klatzow for nearly a decade. During that time, we have interacted on...
In the first of a special series for the Weekly Economics Podcast Kirsty Styles chats to James Meadway, Senior Economist at the New Economics Foundation, about our economic system, the difference between capitalism and neoliberalism and how neoliberalism came to...
2015 will soon be over. During this year, two major documents that were supposed to shape our common future were adopted – and as this blog post is being written, negotiations in Paris are slowly coming to an end. The “Sustainable Development Goals” are supposed to...
