Category: economic justice

Common Wealth

Hope lies with a great, neglected sector of the economy, through which we can create a system that is neither capitalist nor state communist.

The demand for perpetual economic growth, and the collective madness it provokes, leads inexorably to environmental collapse

By reframing the economy, Kate Raworth’s Doughnut Economics changes our view of who we are and where we stand.

Crisis after crisis is being caused by a failed ideology. But it cannot be stopped without a coherent alternative.

The belief that economic growth can be detached from destruction appears to be based on a simple accounting mistake.

A leaked letter from David Cameron offers a remarkable – and terrifying – insight into his mind.

Where does legitimate business end and organised crime begin?

The assault on Greece is just the latest episode in a long history of shutting down choice on behalf of the financial elite.

Theft through excessive rewards: that’s the dominant business model.

Britain is not corrupt? Only through a ridiculously narrow framing of what corruption is.

An astonishing money creation scheme from the 1930s that could help to save the Greek economy.

Consumerism has broken its promise. Perhaps now we can begin to reconnect.

The blind pursuit of economic growth stokes a cycle of financial crisis, and wrecks our world.

The justifications for extreme inequality have collapsed. But only the Green Party is prepared to take the obvious step

The point of current housing policy is to sustain a system built on injustice.

As the food queues lengthen, the government is giving our money to the super-rich.

The market has not solved the problem of power: it has simply given it another name.

Why do we ignore the most blatant transfer of money from the poor to the rich?

Who do Bono and the ONE campaign really represent: the very poor or the very rich?

There is no point at which those who accumulate money become satisfied.