Category - economics

March 24, 2014

Disabled people and mutual caring can revolutionise our economy

In a landmark lecture at Swansea University this week, a leading Welsh historian and theologian will argue that our thinking about welfare and economics needs to be turned upside down through engagement with disabled people and carers.
March 19, 2014

Beyond the Budget: we need a major economic transformation

The contested details of the latest proposals from the UK Chancellor are only partly illustrative of the momentous economic challenge that lies behind and beyond the Budget, says Simon Barrow. Right now the entire system based at Westminster is failing adequately to comprehend and address, let alone tackle, the really big issues in which economics is a major factor.
January 21, 2014

Post-crash economics: time to face reality

The average British voter takes little interest in economics as a subject, being fully occupied with the economic realities of their lives.
January 19, 2014

International financial transformation for the economy of life
January 16, 2014

Churches emphasise social economy as the way forward in Europe

The Greek Deputy Foreign Minister for European Affairs, has received a delegation of senior Greek and European Church representatives in Athens.
January 14, 2014

Monetary reform for public good, not private aggrandisement

It's time to talk about, and talk up, monetary reform – to ensure that the public good that is our money system once again serves the interests of wider society, not just those of private wealth. So says groundbreaking political economist Ann Pettifor, whose new book 'Just Money' demystifies the nature of money and the finance system, showing how and why it needs to be reconstructed.
January 14, 2014

Just Money: How society can break the despotic power of finance

The arrival of Ann Pettifor's latest book, 'Just Money: How society can break the despotic power of finance' is an important publishing moment, says Ekklesia co-director Simon Barrow. It unmasks the false ideologies of austerity and neoliberalism.
January 4, 2014

British public see little economic recovery, poll suggests

‘Whose growth?’ will be the defining political question in 2014, says Trades Union Congress General Secretary Frances O’Grady.
December 8, 2013

Osborne's agenda: who wins, who loses, who decides?

When the government speaks of 'recovery' (which may well turn out to be a bubble largely supported by consumer spending, inflated house prices and private credit), it is worth asking, 'what is being recovered by whom?'
December 4, 2013

Scottish MSPs question regulatory 'economic growth' agenda

MSPs will today seek to amend the Scottish Government's Regulatory Reform Bill to remove a new duty on Scottish regulators to 'promote economic growth'.