And The Weak Suffer What They Must? - Europe, Austerity and the Threat to Global Stability
This book is a book of political economy and a critical history of the world's currency system since 1945. It explores grounds where economics and politics meet.
Progressive Politics in Britain
The publication of Green Politics and the Left was launched at this event.
Facing up to Climate Change: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism after Paris
This public debate was linked to the recent Green House Gas Paris: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism by Brian Heatley.
Newer Times
Andy Pearmain's Newer Times takes up a generation later the idea of the famous Marxism Today ‘New Times’ thesis. Pearmain suggests that the coming of robotisation is going to fundamentally change the nature of our society and our politics.
Limits revisited - A review of the limits to growth report
Four and a half decades after the Club of Rome published its landmark report on Limits to Growth, the study remains critical to understandings of economic prosperity. This new review of the Limits debate has been written for the launch of the UK All Party Parliamentary Group on the Limits to Growth
An Assessment of Current Regulation of GMOs in the EU
Vesco Paskalev argues that the regulation of GMOs in the EU is a shambles. The main problem lies in a very narrow conception of risk and safety. Paskalev proposes specific legal amendments to remedy these faults.
Critiquing ‘Common Cause’
The authors each reflect and comment on the Common Cause report published in 2010
Good Sharing, Bad Sharing Why we need a political regulatory framework for the Sharing Economy
Reinhard Loske's gas discusses a proposal to set up a sharing economy
Green Politics and International Development
Peter Newell's gas argues we need to include green politics into models of development that provide prosperity and respect sustainability.
Paris: Optimism, Pessimism and Realism
Brian Heatley argues that the real meaning of the Paris Climate Agreement is that it is now almost inevitable that there will be 3-4 degrees C of warming by 2100, and that we urgently need to face this and its political implications
“TREEB” stands for The Real Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity.
What are the real basic causes of biodiversity loss and ecosystem decline? This question is asked and answered surprisingly rarely, and when it is, the most frequently proposed answers just scratch the surface of what is at stake.
