The Green New Deal: an idea whose time has come
Theresa May’s new government can seize the opportunities of the political and economic climate and announce a Green New Deal in this week’s autumn statement “Only a crisis – actual […]
Martin Craig
Research Fellow at SPERI
Treasury Control and the prospects for green industrial strategy in Britain
The Treasury’s powers and priorities impinge upon environmental, energy and industrial policies. Understanding and reforming them is a vital step […]
The Coming Crisis: political economy and the ‘other crisis’
How we diagnose and respond to the ‘socio-ecological’ crisis is essential to our understanding of any ‘coming crisis’ These are […]
SPERI spotlight on the UN climate summit V
From the politics of climate summitry to the political economy of climate-change mitigation Today, the 21st ‘Conference of the Parties’ […]
The political economy of (ecological) crisis displacement: Part II
Failure to begin the difficult process of questioning the purposes of economic activity may produce even more intractable ecological crises […]
Thought experiments in the political economy of (ecological) crisis displacement: Part 1
The future crises that we confront depend, above all, on the way we choose to respond to the present ecological […]
Inequality Redux II
The ‘trilemma’ of equality, accumulation and ecology The view that inequality is a barrier to economic performance, rather than a […]
Locating Naomi Klein in the political economy of climate change
She sits somewhat uneasily between ecological Marxists and pro-market ecological economists Naomi Klein’s new book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. […]