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  • 19 Jan 2014
    International financial transformation for the economy of life
  • 14 Jan 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.

  • 14 Jan 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.

  • 4 Jan 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.

  • 25 Dec 2013
    Pope welcomes people and protesters at Christmas

    Pope Francis' wish for Christmas is for a better world, and for protection and dignity for a range of vulnerable groups.

  • 8 Dec 2013
    Westminster economic policies 'threaten Scotland's future'

    Westminster’s failed economic policy has deepened the challenge of sustainability and would see cuts for many years, says the Scottish Government.

  • 5 Dec 2013
    Autumn Statement reveals key UK economic flaws, say critics

    Chancellor Osborne’s Autumn Statement was dominated by short-term political considerations and a failure to address structural issues, say opposition parties.

  • 16 Sep 2013
    Recovering a genuine notion of 'tax fairness'

    In his book The Great Tax Robbery, Richard Brooks notes that "the institutions that shape the tax system have been captured by the tax industry and corporate interests. Policy is determined through committees and consultation processes in which the tax avoidance industry’s representatives dominate, before being nodded through by parliament without proper debate. This cosy cartel urgently needs dismantling," he declares. Wendy Bradley argues that replacing recently resigned David Heaton with someone on the General Anti Abuse advisory panel (GAAR) who represents ordinary people rather than the tax wizards would be a good place to start.

  • 9 Jun 2013
    Environmental and economic damage combine to hit the poor hardest

    The grim facts of environmental degradation are causing worldwide economic loss and that means greater poverty and health problems, says Fr Shay Cullen, focusing on the ecological and financial cost of coal, and upon the impact on East Asia. Time and again short term benefits are mostly for the rich while the environmental damage hurts the poor, he says, citing a report commissioned by the G8 and the United Nation's Environmental Programme.

  • 7 Jun 2013
    No money left, or is it just in the wrong places?

    All three main UK political parties now base their economic arguments on a premise which has come to be accepted as truth, but which may be false. The premise is that ‘there is no money left’ and this is used to justify austerity. We don’t want to cut, the argument goes, but there is no money left, so we have to make difficult decisions.