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Soaring grocery prices helped Trump to victory. The climate crisis is only going to make this worse

From olive oil to butter, extreme weather is pushing up the cost of living and having a dramatic political impact. Economists need a solution, says podcast host James Meadway

The Guardian - UK

‘These ideas are incredibly popular’: what is degrowth and can it save the planet?

The post-growth movement says GDP is the wrong way to measure progress and we need a radical economic rewiring

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer’s Labour is destined to govern the UK. But has it really shaken off neoliberalism?

Keir Starmer seems certain to be the UK’s next prime minister. But what should we expect when he takes the keys to Number 10?

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Talk of a soft landing for the global economy is premature – many dark scenarios are lurking

Big obstacles to rising living standards remain, from populism to protectionism, military conflict to the climate crisis, and China to Wall Street

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‘We can’t pretend the ecological crisis is separate’: the economist thinking differently about climate breakdown

James Meadway, once a Labour adviser and now a podcast host, says the separation between climate and economy has to end

The Guardian - UK

Rishi Sunak’s empty boasting about ‘halving inflation’ can’t hide his economic failures

It is falling global energy prices that have led to a fall in inflation, rather than anything the prime minister has done, says James Meadway, the host of the Macrodose podcast

The Guardian - UK

Why are millennials so turned off by the Tory party?

Amid housing crisis, post-Brexit drag and hardline migration rhetoric, most 25- to 40-year-olds think party deserves to lose next election

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The Bank of England is wrong again: workers aren’t to blame for inflation

Why should we ‘accept we’re worse off’, when corporate greed and global shortages are really to blame, asks James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK

Tory austerity ‘has cost UK half a trillion pounds of public spending since 2010’

Thinktank says 2010-2019 spending would have been £540bn higher had previous plans been stuck to

The Guardian - UK

Bad economics at the BBC enabled Tory austerity and its aftermath – and it knows as much

Too many journalists don’t get ‘basic economics’, an internal review says. Imagine the effect that’s had on UK politics, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK

The case for a new Keynesianism when Labour returns to power

Letters: Carol Wilcox and Tony Brauer respond to an article by James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK

Keir Starmer may win power, but he won’t be able to turn the UK around on the cheap

A Labour government is destined to fail unless it pledges to increase spending on public services, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

The Guardian - UK

The Tories’ ‘fiscal black hole’ is a statistical fiction – let’s have a reality check

The government’s own arbitrary target is the source of this ‘shortfall’, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

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We’re living in an age of permanent crisis – let’s stop planning for a ‘return to normal’

Current plans seem foolish when we know that shocks such as global heating aren’t going away, says Progressive Economy Forum director James Meadway

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Sunak’s package fails to tackle the true cause of UK inflation: shameless profiteering

The fact is, the price cap on energy bills is still going up – and this is a political choice, says James Meadway of the Progressive Economy Forum

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