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Our planet doesn’t fit our economics
In June we said the progress that we’ve seen recently on cutting emissions will not take us to the 2030 target. We’ve been cutting emissions by about 1% per year, outside of the power sector, the one sector we’ve been … Continue reading
Are interest rates immoral?
Interest rates are such a central part of our economic life that it seems difficult to imagine what life would be like without them. Yet for most of its history, Christianity was fiercely opposed to them. Why? How was its … Continue reading
What should governments value?
This is a British question. For the best part of another two years, Britain is stuck with a government that seems not to know what it is supposed to be doing. Lots of people are on strike, mainly people providing … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Ethics, Society
Tagged avarice, Britain, commerce, economic growth, exploitation, feudalism, government, land, medieval society, property rights, purpose of life, strikes
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Who creates wealth?
We get more and more billionaires. We also get more and more homeless people, and longer queues at foodbanks. Why? How human are we, if we take this for granted? This is the sixth and last in a series of … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Society
Tagged economic accounting, economic growth, economic values, economics, individualism, justice, self-interest, social capital, wealth
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Who creates wealth? Nature?
This is the second in a series of posts on wealth. Critics are increasingly challenging our dominant assumptions – not only because we are making more and more people hungry and homeless while the billionaires pile up: we are also … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Ethics, Theology
Tagged Adam Smith, Bernard Mandeville, economic growth, invisible hand, John Locke, Joseph Butler, self-interest, self-love, wealth, Wealth of Nations
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The costs of economic growth
I have finally got round to reading E J Mishan’s The Costs of Economic Growth, a book I bought for an Economics course in the 1970s. Written in 1965 but not published till 1967 because it was considered too radical, … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Environment, Society
Tagged Buchanan Report, cars, Climate change, COP 26, E J Mishan, economic growth, environment, motor transport
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Philosophical climate-striking
The deeper issues behind the environmental debate Continue reading
Posted in Society
Tagged Climate, Climate Strike, economic growth, environment, Greta Thunberg, technology
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Why Christians should vote for a different government. 6) Wealth
This post is part of a series summarising some of the arguments in my new book Why Progressives Need God. Here I focus on wealth.
Posted in Economics, Politics, Society
Tagged Christianity, economic growth, economics, General Election
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