Economics

Why we need a collective narrative and a shift from GDP to low impact jobs to deliver effective solutions to the climate crisis.

Conventional economic modelling is far too sanguine about the future given the impacts of climate breakdown.

A global day of action calling on banks, asset managers and insurers to stop funding climate chaos will take place this Friday, 29 October 2021.

Economist Ann Pettifor predicted the 2008 economic crash. And predicted a 'shuddering shock' just ahead of the coronavirus pandemic. Find out what she sees coming next...

Pre-covid life is unlikely to return in an environmentally unstable world. But our economic theories have yet to adapt to this new normal.

The Polluters Out’s (PO) twitter campaign showed the power of social media in garnering the attention of BP’s chief executive and directors.

The exploitation of labour, and the ravaging of nature, is an essential element in shaping the rich world’s economies.

We must create an economic ethos that places mutual collaboration above profit.

Workers will build the green transition: their rights and lives must be enhanced in the process.

Long Read: Economics has been dominated by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) as a measure of success. But ecological economics measures welfare and sustainability instead.

Renewable energy projects set to create 10 million new jobs globally - with 625,000 in the UK alone.

Tim Jackson's latest book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism is 'written almost as much in poetry as in prose'.

The pandemic confirms that capitalism is a clear and present danger to human existence.

Climate breakdown risks a supercycle where the price of goods - including food - rises as supply breaks down. So who is going to pay?

Now is the time to be bold, and to envisage a holistic, green recovery linking human wellbeing with the health of ecosystems.

Consumption is driving ecological collapse and rests on human exploitation. A new Encyclopaedia of Work would reveal the real costs of consumer 'goods'.

Taxation - including a carbon tax - can incentivise the transition to a low carbon economy, while reducing inequality and supporting vital services.

The UK budget must be about pouring enough water on climate fires and irrigating resources to those in need - not about plucking geese and ‘maxed-out’ credit cards.

Innovation must mean real ecological transformation and not just new ways for companies to extract value through mining and externalise waste.

We cannot treat climate breakdown without understanding the full picture: emissions and resource use are inextricably enmeshed. 

'The LSE would become a world leader and show other universities teaching economics is incomplete without teaching ecology.'

Parliamentarians and NGOs across Europe have signed joint statements calling for public development banks to respect human rights and stop funding fossil fuels.

We need a new economy that supports humans as part of nature rather than profits and investments.

A transformative Covid recovery must depart from the narratives of green capitalism and safe globalisation.