“Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security”, according to a new report published by Nature. The technical jargon here references a…
“Simultaneous harvest failures across major crop-producing regions are a threat to global food security”, according to a new report published by Nature. The technical jargon here references a…
New British premier Liz Truss, and her chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng, have embarked on a gigantic economic gamble. If it succeeds, it will surprise – not…
With economies stumbling, the cost of living rising at rates not seen in forty years, and world markets gripped by nervousness, there are two ways…
For perfectly understandable reasons, public and media reactions to the surge in energy prices have concentrated almost exclusively on rises in the cost of domestic…
As we’ve been reminded at COP-26, climate campaigners believe that the only way in which environmental disaster can be prevented is by the immediate cessation…
As, when and if the coronavirus pandemic recedes into the past, there’s a widespread assumption that we’ll see the welcome return of a ‘normality’, defined…
Two broad sets ideas have shaped the practice and philosophy of political economy during much of the Industrial Age. One of these is collectivist thinking, which argues…
Right from the start of the coronavirus pandemic, it’s been imperative that we avoid a “second wave” of infections. This statement, obvious as it is…
In my previous commentary here, I made the point that what really matters in the economic and financial context of the coronavirus crisis isn’t what…
Where the human, social and logistical dimensions of the Wuhan coronavirus epidemic are concerned, the most that any of us can really do is to…
This piece is about the single most important aspect of our re-imagining, writes Barry Cooper. The future will not be a different kind of “business as usual”….