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Blog The Absent Corporation 

The Royal Mail – for public service or private profit?

10th January 202310th January 2023 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments Economics, Finance, Public service

Is it our fault? Are we asleep at the wheel, mildly surprised at the sell-off of much that was thought

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2023: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

3rd January 20233rd January 2023 Andrew Simms 0 Comments climate, Economics, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in store for

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Blog Rapid Transition The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects in 2022: the New Weather Institute in the Financial Times survey

4th January 20226th January 2022 Andrew Simms 2 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, green new deal, rapid transition

Each year the Financial Times polls a group of economic analysts on what they think the next year holds in

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Blog Weather Bombs 

Death in the valley – is this finally the alarm that can’t be ignored?

13th July 202113th July 2021 Bill McGuire 1 Comment climate emergency, Economics, extreme weather

With bad news from the global heating front arriving in lorry loads, it is becoming ever more difficult to stay

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Economic prospects for 2021
Blog The Economics Reformation 

Economic prospects for 2021: New Weather and the FT survey

7th January 20217th January 2021 Andrew Simms 2 Comments 2021, Economics, green new deal, Pandemic

Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of economic analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms

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Blog The Economics Reformation 

“A pandemic spreads” – what are we learning about failed neoliberal economics?

16th December 202017th December 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Neoliberalism, Pandemic

Andrew Simms and Sarah Woods reflect on the accidental relevance of their performance-lecture Neoliberalism: The Break-Up Tour for the launch

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How the AA was hollowed-out by Anglo American economics

21st August 202021st August 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments absent corporation, debt, Economics

The world of staycation is bound to lead to those sad scenes by motorways and country roads of the broken

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Blog The Absent Corporation 

How privatisation designed-in the PPE chaos

25th May 202025th May 2020 Lindsay Mackie 0 Comments coronavirus, COVID-19, Economics, health, PPE, privatisation

Sometimes we are enabled to see clearly. A light shines and we have the ‘intake of breath’ moment. One such

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Blog Rapid Transition 

National Gardening Leave: an opportunity to reinvent working lives and urban spaces

1st April 20201st April 2020 Andrew Simms 2 Comments climate emergency, Economics, rapid transition, Work

How often are ideas that once seemed radical and to some, even preposterous, made tame by the turn of events?

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Blog The Economics Reformation 

What are we like? Economic myth and the kindness counter-revolution

22nd March 202015th May 2020 Andrew Simms 0 Comments Economics, Economics Reformation, Heterodox Economics, rapid transition

It wasn’t clear at the time, but a couple of weeks ago I gave what is likely to be my

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