There's an interesting set of ideas emerging in response to the economic crisis and the inadequate response that we're seeing to it. The only coherent and easily-referencable nascent 'movement' that I've been able to identify from amongst the numerous voices clamouring for attention, is called 'Collapsonomics'.
The idea is defined as ...
Soon I'm going to write something about what the G20 have come up with, but in the meantime, I wanted to share this video:
The Crisis of Credit Visualized from Jonathan Jarvis on Vimeo.
It's pretty similar in terms of clarifying the situation as the presentation I linked to in my first ...
When I started this blog back in September, I wanted to promote the idea of embarking on a 'green new deal' to deal with the economic situation that has continued to unfold since then. Tomorrow the G20 meet to discuss things (as they should), but with no imagination whatsoever having ...
I've been running around very busily recently with lots of other things, and so have unfortunately neglected to post here for some time. I have had some ideas about where the kinds of things I've been discussing here may go next though, and more about that soon.
In the meantime, I ...
February 5th 2009
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Amidst all the coverage of the financial crisis, in which very surreal statistics about the technicalities of what a recession is and when we're in it dominate the headlines, there is one decision that will have a significant effect on the future direction of our economic system.
So far all of ...