New Economic Foundation – Peter Geoghegan

Why We Need More Banking, Not Less

By peterPosted on 3rd October 2012Posted in Economics, ScotsmanTagged Airdrie Savings Bank, Banking, New Economic Foundation

IN THE wake of the 2008 crash, thousands of people are moving their accounts from the Big Five banks every month. Crisis? What crisis? The immortal phrase – created by a Sun journalist, but erroneously attributed to then prime minister Jim Callaghan – helped bring down a Labour government in 1979, but could as easily […]

The Secret Life of Stuff

By peterPosted on 10th January 2011Posted in Books, Society and Culture, Sunday Business PostTagged Growth Isn't Possible, Julie Hill, New Economic Foundation, Secret Life of Stuff1 Comment

Review of Julie Hill’s new book the Secret Life of Stuff appeared in the Sunday Business Post on January 9 Economic growth is always a good thing, right? Not according to the New Economics Foundation. In January 2010, this left-leaning British think-tank warned, in the aptly-titled Growth Isn’t Possible report, that the prevailing orthodoxy of […]