Starmer doesn't recognise the scale of economic transformation required to address climate breakdown, vast inequality and poverty. The government’s growth obsession isn't the right strategy poorly executed, but a reflection of the absence of a transformative vision: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...

Supposedly growth *is* this government's “number one mission” and “obsession”, and we just need to wait for it to arrive. In reality, there is much wider set of structural factors at play that is making growth increasingly hard to come by in global North economies: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...

Creating economic growth is not the most important question of all. The most important question is how to transform economies to achieve social wellbeing for all within ecological limits, which infinite growth cannot do.

We *need* to make zero-sum decisions. Growth is hoarded by elites and drives ecological degradation. We need wealth taxes urgently to rein in the social and ecological damages caused by extreme wealth, and industrial strategies which scale down damaging industries: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...

Creating economic growth is not the most important question of all. The most important question is how to transform economies to achieve social wellbeing for all within ecological limits, which infinite growth cannot do.

We need to make zero-sum decisions. Growth is hoarded by elites and drives ecological degradation. We need wealth taxes urgently to rein in the social and ecological damages caused by extreme wealth, and industrial strategies which scale down damaging industries: positivemoney.org/uk/update/th...

Would be nice if this 'vigilance' could also be applied to private finance behemoths e.g. BlackRock, Blackstone

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