Last Saturday was a very successful International Day of Action against the TPPA! Here is something Jane Kelsey wrote about the various scenarios. Here is hoping we don’t get option 3. And watch the timing, as it could all happen … Continue reading
Most of us spent some time as children playing Monopoly. The more properties you buy the more rents you collect. “I’ll buy Mayfair, its rents are high. Rent please!” Sooner or later you opponents are out of the game and … Continue reading
Late last night I engaged with you in 140 character tweets on the topic of climate and the economy. You were expressing the strong desire that we can have economic growth at the same time as halting climate change. And … Continue reading
What is in it for me? What ordinary people want to know about a party’s policies are “What is in it for me?” And that’s a very valid question. What are the outcomes for you the voter when we fundamentally … Continue reading
I have been following the twitter discussion of Jesse Colombo’s Forbes article on why the New Zealand economy will crash. I realised I hadn’t ever posted our submission made in November last year to the Finance and Expenditure Committee. The … Continue reading
One of the delights I have had recently has been talking to a guy who has done a PhD in communication during financial crises. Naturally he had been reading Marx and Minsky and a thousand other authors over his ten … Continue reading
How To Build A Life-Supporting Economic System Earth is a living ecosystem and necessarily the model for the human economic system. The words ecology and economy have the same Greek root ‘ekos’, meaning ‘home’ or ‘earth’, so our economy is … Continue reading