Finance

Green House Think Tank work relating to money, our economy, the governance of investment, the measuring and accounting of progress, and prehaps most significantly, the nihilism, limts and consequences of endless economic 'growth'.

Molly Scott Cato

Free universities! Re-configuring the Finance and Governance Models of the UK Higher Education Sector

In this paper, Cato argues that there are wider motives behind the increasing marketisation of the higher education system, and drawing on experience in a number of other countries, argues that there are alternatives which would do much less damage to the basic ideals of higher education



Mike Hannis

Offsetting Nature?: Habitat Banking and Biodiversity Offsets in the English Land Use Planning System

Hannis and Sullivan argue that by encouraging us to think that one bit of nature is much like another, biodiversity offsetting undermines the unique place-based relationships between people and nature, moving us further away from ecological sustainability.



Molly Scott Cato

Local Liquidity: From Ineffective Demand to Community Currencies

The report includes an authoritative account of the different types of local money that are in circulation across the world from Germany's hugely successful Chiemgauer to the currency issued by Banco Palmas in Brazil and Rotterdam's Nu-Spaarpas.



Brian Heatley

Joined up Economics

In this common sense account Brian Heatley uses real data to connect the UK’s economic performance to the wider environment, and through an analysis of the origins of inequality shows how the economy contributes to or undermines people’s happiness and security.