On the first day of 2016 trading the FTSE 500 index nosedived. This surprised perennially optimistic business commentators, but will not surprise those who read the EREP review of the UK economy in 2015. Read part two here.
Thus, the ultra-flexible UK labour market (“with employers in the driving seat”, in the government’s own charming words) – to be enhanced by the repressive new Trade Union Act – has had the effect of causing productivity to fall. Read part one here.
Suddenly we realized that cooperation rather than competition was a more effective strategy to survive and thrive in a world where our life-supporting ecosystems had fuzzy but ultimately non-negotiable limits.
Overuse tends to dilute the meaning of telling phrases, especially in politics. But it does seem that the Stern review on the economic impacts of climate change, published on 30
A new book by the pioneering green campaigner Jonathon Porritt, Capitalism As If the World Matters, calls on environmentalists to create a politics of sustainability that accepts the reality of
Humanitys current inability to react adequately to a warming biosphere suggests that we may be more stupid than frogs.
Put a frog in gradually warming water so the story
