by Andrew Simms | Jan 4, 2022 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Rethinking Economics
Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for the UK. The New Weather Institute is part of that survey published today, and here are our responses collected together. They argue that huge economic...
by Andrew Simms | Mar 22, 2020 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
It wasn’t clear at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I gave what is likely to be my last public talk for a while, reproduced below, at an event called Human Nature, organised by the Experimental Thought Co. Already it seems an age away, but even then our...
by Andrew Simms | Sep 20, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
We all know there is a climate emergency, but what we can do about it? Any action capable of working at the speed and scale needed looks like a Green New Deal. Now there’s a proposal before Parliament to deliver one. Here’s Caroline Lucas writing in The...
by Andrew Simms | Aug 26, 2019 | Blog, Initiatives, Rethinking Economics
Economics – A Crash Course Hear the authors David Boyle and Andrew Simms introduce their new book, Economics – A Crash Course, the first beginner’s guide to the subject for the general reader written from a plural or ‘heterodox’...