Events

The environment is paying the price for bad economic advice

How second-rate economic analysis proliferates in the UK’s planning system

The Ethical Consumerism Report 2005

The European Central Bank and climate change

Five steps towards a sustainable recovery.

The European Happy Planet Index

An index of carbon efficiency and wellbeing in the EU

The everyday economy

We hosted a discussion with Rachel Reeves MP on how we can create a new political economy that bridges our divides

The fight for a fairer housing system in England

Only when renting is genuinely affordable will the UK private rented sector be fit for purpose

The fight for shorter working hours

We’re facing a number of crises in our workplace – reducing working hours is part of the solution

The financialisation of UK homes

The housing crisis, land and the banks

The foundations of the housing crisis

How our extractive land and development models work against public good

The four-day week is unavoidable, it is the way we have to go

Former BBC Radio Broadcaster on his experience of working a four-day week in the 1970s

The future of farming is agroecological

The problem with our global food system – and how to fix it

The gap between universal credit and the cost of living is growing

Universal credit is falling £890 a month short of essentials, despite inflation-linked uprating

The gap years

Enterprise and Inequality in England 2002–2006

The giant hole in government finances is more proof that austerity has failed

Miatta Fahnbulleh writes for Guardian.

The Good Jobs Plan

A new approach to industrial strategy

The government is forcing fracking on communities who have rejected it

Nothing says ‘Green GB Week’ like the start of a whole new fossil fuel industry.

The government must act now to protect social housing tenants and social landlords from financial disaster

As we stand on the brink of a new housing crisis, ministers must avert further hardship in our broken housing system

The government should plan to spend at least 2-3% of GDP on a green fiscal response to the next recession

New NEF analysis shows the response to the financial crisis in 2010 was a missed opportunity to invest in green infrastructure meaning emissions from UK homes were 30% higher in 2018