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Category - alternative economics

8 Feb 2012

We need a system that puts human wellbeing first

The competitive nature of the top-down, corporate capitalist system means we can never truly be 'all in this together', says Jonathan Bartley. All we do is sacrifice the most vulnerable for the sake of maintaining an unjust order. Economic alternatives are essential, and go well beyond statism.
31 Jan 2012

Austerity measures are hitting the British economy

Austerity measures are damaging the economy in Britain, Italy and Spain, warned Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.
21 Jan 2012

Behind the weak rhetoric of 'responsible capitalism'

While David Cameron and Ed Miliband continue to support relentless growth and minor amendments to the economic system, the inequalities inherent in that system will prosper, says Jonathan Bartley. A more thoroughgoing critique and real alternatives are needed.
17 Jan 2012

Labour accused of abandoning an alternative economic agenda

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has effectively "given up any attempt to set out an alternative economic agenda", Green Party leader Caroline Lucas says.
25 Dec 2011

Hong Kong churches act for economic justice at Christmas

The Hong Kong Catholic Church has adopted economic justice as its Christmas theme, and other churches are joining the occupy anti-corporate movement.
12 Dec 2011

Euro summit deal denounced as economically unsustainable

The Green Party has dismissed Euro-zone crisis proposals as short-sighted, economically unsustainable and an attack on European democracy.
5 Dec 2011

OLSX to meet Financial Services Authority at St Ethelburga's

Representatives from Occupy London (OLSX) are set to meet with Hector Sants, chief executive of the UK regulator for the financial services industry.
26 Nov 2011

Edinburgh City Council back Occupy with 'historic' vote

Occupy Edinburgh are "ecstatic" that their City Council has come out in favour of the local and global movement for just economics.
24 Nov 2011

Responsible finance and economic justice
18 Nov 2011

Occupied UBS office complex will become a 'bank of ideas'

Occupy London has announced its takeover of a huge abandoned office block in the borough of Hackney belonging to controversial investment bank UBS.

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