ACFM: Can We Escape the Obsession With Growth?
A weird-left perspective on growth, from macroeconomics to personal productivity.
Tag: growth
Analysis: The Budget Is Socialism for the Rich, Austerity for the Poor
James Meadway
With her record-low corporation tax and below-inflation benefit rises, Labour’s first woman chancellor has indeed made history: by passing up a historic opportunity to fix Britain, writes James Meadway.
Explainers: The Establishment’s Plan to Deal With Inflation
As inflation rises the establishment has a solution: we all need to get poorer. The alternative is for profits to fall – but that is unacceptable to the powerful. Aaron Bastani on how only unions can save us.
Novara FM: Only Pleasure Can Save the Planet
Philosopher Kate Soper joins Clare Hymer to discuss alternative hedonism, political optimism and post-growth living.
Opinion: What Do We Owe?
Adrienne Buller
Rightwingers have spent years arguing that the cost of climate action puts an unfair burden of debt on future generations. In the third piece of a series on climate breakdown and alienation, Adrienne Buller argues we need to rethink how we understand intergenerational responsibility.
The Bastani Factor: Are the Tories Actually Strong on the Economy? 🤔
The Tories like to present themselves as the party of economic credibility. But after nine years in power is that really true?
IMOBastani: The Tories’ Record on the Economy? A Catastrophe
Aaron Bastani looks at how Britain has suffered a 'lost decade', and how another is on the way
IMOBastani: Osborne’s Cocktail of Threats – Crisis 2016?
What are the ingredients of the Cocktail of Threats? Aaron Bastani on why George Osborne is suddenly so keen to ring the alarm about the UK economy.
Interview: Interview: Antony Loewenstein
Aaron Bastani speaks to Antony Loewenstein, author of 'Disaster Capitalism', about migration, Europe and what it means to be a journalist in the 21st century.
Interview: Interview: Jeremy Corbyn
Aaron Bastani talks to Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn about his candidacy and asks what a Corbyn government would mean for constitutional reform, policing, care work, sexism and more besides.
What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know
John Evans
It's the political buzzword of our times, but how much to do you know about where growth comes from, who it benefits and what it ignores?
What is deflation and what does it mean for the working class?
James Meadway
Yesterday the UK went into deflation. George Osborne praised the "good news" while many economists were far more cautious. James Meadway from the New Economics Foundation explains what deflation is and what it means for the economy, wages and the working class.
IMOBastani: UK Gov’t Deficit Lies & The Global Economic Meltdown
Aaron Bastani talks deficits, debt and the future of the global economy in 2015.
The Ineptitude of Chuka Umunna: 5 Signs Labour are Scraping the Barrel
Dan Whittall
"Cities are on the march," declares shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna. That's easy for Blue Labour's anti-squatter pin-up to say, but here's why he's failed on the basics of urban political economy and why his ineptitude means Labour are scraping the ideas barrel.
Novara FM: Falling Wages, Self-Managed Poverty
On this week's show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss recent economic data and the massive growth in the 'self-employed' since 2010.
Interview: Interview: David Harvey
Professor David Harvey talks to Aaron Bastani about capitalism, crisis and social movements post-2008.
Novara FM: ‘Let Them Eat Bingo’: Assessing #Budget2014
On this week's show James Butler and Aaron Bastani discuss 'Budget 2014'.
Unmasking UK Growth
Aaron Bastani takes a closer look at the recent 'good news' about the UK economy.