NEW BLOG POST✍️ With the news of a technical recession in the UK, Dean Hochlaf breaks down the reality of it all. Despite what economists and media pundits may tell you, things were already pretty terrible. thewceg.org/resource/terri…

"Across so many indicators, our economy is proving unable to meet the needs of a growing proportion of the population" I've written for The Working Class Economists Group on how the "technical" recession is a continuation of economic failures and why we need to re-think how and for who our economy works

Wrote a short piece for The Working Class Economists Group on why last weeks recession news is just a continuation of economic crises which should be an opportunity to consider how we can build a better economic approach thewceg.org/resource/terri…

We are having our reading group session later this evening on Dani Rodrik's piece, On Productivism, which is sure to be a great discussion. A quick question: Is productivism, "a new paradigm" as Rodrik calls, the way foward?🤔 drodrik.scholar.harvard.edu/sites/scholar.…

💭We need to talk about 'fiscal headroom'. With the Budget fast approaching, this week we unpack the idea of fiscal headroom, and explain how the narrative that the economy has ‘turned the corner’ is built on plans for huge public sector spending cuts: neweconomybrief.net/the-digest/the…

NEW BLOG POST✍️ The closing down of the Grangemouth refinery is just another moment in the long history of managed decline. Coll McCail gives us a great rundown in this guest piece on why we can't let a just transition be an unjust one for workers. thewceg.org/resource/the-u…

‘At the crux of this issue is a question politicians of all parties are determined to ignore: Who controls our economy?’ My piece on Grangemouth & the (un)just transition for the The Working Class Economists Group blog. thewceg.org/resource/the-u…

"We know all too well that a transition entrusted to the free market will leave power and profit centralised in the hands of the ruling class."

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Our economy should be judged not on GDP or productivity, as economists, policywonks and politicians would like, but how many people are starving or homeless.

Scotland’s ‘just’ transition is being derailed by big business & the Scottish Government are lapping it up. New video for @theskotia.

I expanded on the 140 seconds Twitter allows us in the piece below for The Working Class Economists Group. thewceg.org/resource/the-u…

Wrote a little piece on austerity, Mattei's unholy trinity, and the need to be not just against it, but actively anti-austerity. Go grab ye copy!

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