Opinion: Should We Stop Paying Our Water Bills?
Richard Hames
Privatised water symbolises everything wrong with Britain. Asking nicely hasn't worked, argues Richard Hames - we need a protest movement that can force change.
Tag: financialisation
Downstream: Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
Analysis: Our Financialised Care System is Built on a House of Cards – We Urgently Need to Rebuild It
Annie Quick and Alice Martin
Care homes in the UK, like much of the care sector, are highly financialised - but there are signs the model is faltering. If we’re going to improve care quality as well as wages and conditions in the sector, we need to build both worker and user-led power, argue Annie Quick and Alice Martin.
Novara Live: How to Save the World From Financialisation: Interview With Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley’s new book “Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation” offers a history of finance-led growth, and argues democratic socialism is the only way to escape it.
Novara FM: A Decade of Crisis
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Richard Seymour and Aaron Bastani: a decade since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the ensuing economic, political and social crisis, what's changed? And were obituaries for neoliberalism written too soon?
Profits For Investors: The Political Economy of PFI
Grace Blakeley
Following the collapse of Carillion, it would be easy to say private finance intiatives (PFIs) simply don't work. But governments from Major to Blair to May have pursued the PFI agenda despite its terrible record - so who does it work for?
False Sense of Securities: The Financialisation of the Housing Market
Tom Feary
Blame for London’s shortage of affordable housing tends to be directed towards greedy developers or exploitative foreign cash buyers who leave luxury flats vacant all year round. These actors, however, are part of a much wider process of the financialisation of the housing market.
Novara FM: Dismantle, Decolonise, Democratise – Fighting Neoliberalism in the University
Ash Sarkar talks to Harry Stopes and James Eastwood casualisation in higher education and what students, lecturers and workers can do to resist it.
Barts Health: The Real-Life Consequences of PFI in the NHS
Carol Saunders
The realities of the Private Finance Initiative's role in the decimation of the NHS are at their most stark in the case of Barts Health. The east London NHS Trust covers 6 hospitals and will owe £7.1bn in PFI debt, while politicians remain silent.
IMOBastani: Housing in London – Everyone is Miserable
In light of recent dystopian visions from Luxury housing developers Aaron asks who exactly is the current system benefitting?
Indignant… to what end? Private Island Reviewed
Tom Blackburn
Tom Blackburn reviews Private Island, the latest release by writer and Novara FM guest, James Meek.
Novara FM: Where Will We Live?
On this week's show Aaron and James discuss James Meek's recent piece in the London Review of Books: 'Where will we live?'
Novara FM: Is There Such a Thing as ‘The Real Economy’?
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the idea of the 'real economy' as being independent from the supposedly 'unreal' financial economy. Does this binary still cohere with the observable workings of contemporary production in the 21st century?
Novara FM: Universities and Financialisation
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by Andrew McGettigan, as they discuss the financialisation of the UK higher education sector.