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Economists have urged Rachel Reeves to loosen the purse strings – here’s why it’s not that easy

27/09/2024 - Leave a Comment

A group of economists has publicly urged chancellor Rachel Reeves to reverse her stance on public investment, and relax the Treasury rules that constrain it. They argue in a letter to the …

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Japan bets on tech, immigration as labor crisis worsens

10/02/2024 - Leave a Comment

The first sectors to feel the pinch of worker shortages were nursing and elderly care. The problem soon spread to construction and delivery businesses, followed by taxi firms, forestry companies …

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Maine voters reject effort to create the first statewide public power company

11/11/2023 - Leave a Comment

  Voters in Maine overwhelmingly rejected scuttling the state’s for-profit utilities in favor of a public power company that would have been governed by a board of elected and appointed officials. The referendum was …

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Which way will water flow?

06/10/202302/01/2024 - Leave a Comment

Justin Taberham examines the prospects for the UK water sector. Near daily media interest and criticism of water companies’ pollution performance has lately been often stimulated by public reporting or …

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Fools and their money

30/03/202330/03/2023 - Leave a Comment

Rosie Collington, with Mariana Mazzucato, are authors of a new book laying bare the world of consultancies and their clients. They argue that the consulting industry weakens our businesses, infantilises …

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Mission Economy

29/01/2021 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Even before the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, capitalism was stuck. It had no answers to a host of problems, including disease, inequality, the digital divide and, perhaps …

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Democratically digital

09/10/202009/01/2022 - Leave a Comment

Internet access has been a lifeline during the Covid pandemic.  Miriam Brett argues it is too important to remain in the hands of private sector interests. An invisible lifeform has …

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The Case for a Job Guarantee

03/07/2020 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both unavoidable and necessary for the smooth functioning of the economy. This assumption has provided cover for the …

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The Future is Public: Towards Democratic Ownership of Public Services

15/05/202002/10/2021 - Leave a Comment

From the publisher: Resistance to privatisation has turned into a powerful force for change. (Re)municipalisation refers to the reclaiming of public ownership of services as well as the creation of …

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Schemes to privatize the U.S. Postal Service are being debated amid coronavirus

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At this very moment, U.S. Postal Service carriers are delivering masks and respirators to the front lines in the battle against the coronavirus pandemic. They are moving test kits to …

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