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 | Jan 2, 2020 | Blog, Rethinking Economics
Each year the Financial Times newspaper investigates the UK’s upcoming economic prospects with a survey of analysts. New Weather’s Andrew Simms took part. The survey’s predictions often prove highly accurate. Like last year, the uncertainty of Brexit still...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 22, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition
As the UK is revealed to be the biggest net importer of carbon dioxide emissions per person in the G7 group of wealthy nations, heterodox economist Katie Kedward spells out five reasons to question the UK government’s progress on tackling the...
by Andrew Simms | Oct 10, 2019 | Blog, Rapid Transition, Rethinking Economics
Extinction Rebellion held a People’s Assembly in Parliament to identify new priorities for each government department, this is an adapted from Andrew Simms’ short speech on the challenge to the Treasury When he led the Treasury as Chancellor of the...
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...
