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Inflation and the Anthropocene: a reply to Adam Tooze
If this really is the Anthropocene, why would we expect our economic models to still work as before?
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James Meadway
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October 2023

Material roots, the end of hegemony, the suppression of finance by nature
Environmental breakdown portends the end of hegemony in the world economy, and, with it, the end of the supra-secular decline in real interest rates.
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James Meadway

July 2022

Economics for the Anthropocene
Ubiquitous, and worsening, environmental instability means we will have to throw out the anthropocentrism of economics.
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James Meadway
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March 2022

Bretton Woods III
The development of a polycentric global monetary system is a challenge to our system of nation-states.
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James Meadway
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Net Zero Sum Games
Crises demand an immediate response, and one that fits the blunt logic of low growth capitalism.
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James Meadway
How Russia's war will help reshape Britain's economy
Smaller banks, bigger tanks.
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James Meadway

February 2022

Central banks as weapons: how the West learned from the eurozone crisis
Targeting of Russia's basic financial infrastructure is already proving effective. But this is a weapon honed in Europe over the last decade of crisis.
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James Meadway
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December 2021

Can the left survive covid?
There are no historic guarantees it will. Right now, the British left is consigning itself to irrelevance.
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James Meadway
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Working from home returns
The UK government's "Plan B" advises working from home where possible. But the shift to mass homeworking over the last two years has contributed to a…
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James Meadway
Omicron, the Zero Covid fallacy, and the redivision of the world
Omicron is accelerating the construction of new borders and controls, between and within countries.
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James Meadway

November 2021

The Omicron variant
Covid isn't going away, and the future for capitalism is one of low growth, high costs, and bigger governments.
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James Meadway
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Growth, inequality, and the future of capitalism
Continual growth has been our background belief about how the economy works for 150 years. Perhaps it is time to return to those thinkers who didn't…
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James Meadway
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