Posts Tagged ‘environment’
A guide to euro financial jargon
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19 Jan 2012This is a box for my recent Fund Strategy cover story. I will paste the final box tomorrow. Bazooka. Popular term for a large sum of money used to underpin a bail-out of troubled national debt. European Banking Authority (EBA). The EU’s London-based banking regulator. Responsible for such tasks at the stress testing of EU [...]
- Tags: environment, Europe, finance, Fund Strategy
Fixation with inequality distorts truth
9 Dec 2011This is my latest book review for spiked. I have a mildly embarrassing confession to make. I love statistics. Whenever I start to examine a social or economic question, I gather all the available data to see what it tells me. Such statistics provide a valuable means to go beyond personal impressions. People I happen [...]
- Tags: book, consumption, environment, inequality, review, spiked
Me vs “Small is beautiful”
16 Nov 2011I have an article in the Guardian’s “big ideas” series on EF Schumacher’s notion of “small is beautiful”.
Anti-capitalism can be conservative
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10 Nov 2011Both supporters and opponents of the Occupy movement are labouring under the misconception that the recent wave of anti-capitalist protests is somehow leftist or radical. If they looked more closely they would see that such anti-capitalists are more conservative than the most ardent shire Tories. It is true that perhaps the most photographed banner outside [...]
- Tags: environment, Fund Strategy, inequality, protests
Debating “prosperity without growth”
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9 Jun 2011My debate at the Battle of Ideas 2010 with Tim Jackson, the author of Prosperity without growth?, is now available to watch on video.
- Tags: development, economics, environment, speeches, Worldwrite
German nuclear shutdown irrational
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6 Jun 2011This is my latest comment on Fund Strategy. The German chancellor’s extraordinary decision to shut all of Germany’s nuclear power plants by 2022 illustrates spectacularly how fear has come to dominate the western elites. From any rational perspective it makes no sense. Angela Merkel’s move can be seen as a panic reaction to the problems [...]
- Tags: energy, environment, Fund Strategy, Germany
David Harvey IS green
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2 May 2011For those who thought I was caricaturing David Harvey in Thursday’s spiked review he has helpfully summarised his arguments in an article in the Independent. There should certainly be no doubt about his “green” credentials: “Zero growth is a necessity and zero growth is incompatible with capitalism. The necessity is, therefore, that we must all [...]
- Tags: consumption, environment, spiked
Critique of neo-liberalism on spiked
28 Apr 2011My critique of the notion of “neo-liberalism” is the lead item in the latest spiked view of books.
- Tags: book, consumption, economics, environment, review, spiked
Articles of note
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31 Mar 2011Limits to environmentalism 3 and Limits to environmentalism 4, Politicalclimate blog, by Matthew Lockwood. After a gap of over a year Matthew Lockwood, an associate director at the Institute for Public Policy Research, has written two more parts to his critique of Tim Jackson’s Prosperity Without Growth. For links to parts one and two see [...]
- Tags: articles of note, consumption, economics, environment, ethics, Germany
Me leading Economist debate
8 Feb 2011I am opposing the motion that “the global elite serves the masses” in an Economist online debate. Please feel free to participate here.
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