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I’m sure many of you will have read David Graeber’s recent article in the New York Review of Books, called “Against Economics”. He opens with the statement that “There is a growing feeling, among those who have the responsibility of managing large economies, that the discipline of economics is no longer fit for purpose.”
Survival International, an NGO that champions tribal peoples around the world, has issued a warning about a proposed UN plan to protect 30 percent of the planet by 2030. At the next Convention on Biological Diversity summit, world leaders plan to agree on turning 30%
This article is a response to Dr Mark Diesendorf’s article ‘Population is a Driver of Environmental Impact: a Response to Duncan Wallace’ (NEJ, May 2020) Thank you to Dr Mark Diesendorf for his reply. He said that I implied, in my original article, that he
And with that, the first year of the New Economy Journal is in the books. We’ve published eight issues and 86 individual pieces, managed to put together a print edition for NENA’s annual conference in Perth and built a strong foundation from which to
With the debate heating up about rising inequality and whether employee ownership/co-operatives might contribute to ‘social outcomes,’ the following little article reports on a study which provided a resounding “yes.”
For the first time, the International Co-operative Alliance Asia-Pacific Research Conference will be held in Australia. The University of Newcastle will play host – fitting given not just its important place in the history of the Australian consumer movement, but because it’s one of the
East Timorese co-ops were the subject of an interesting panel event in Melbourne in late August. Hosted by 888 Causeway Co-operative, the event featured Elsa Pinto and Lanu de Sousa, both East Timorese community developers undertaking masters courses in Melbourne. Elsa Pinto works with farming
Overpopulation is Not the Problem The New Economy Journal has featured a number of articles this year on the “population problem”: Haydn Washington’s “Denying overpopulation is a double tragedy”; Mark Diesendorf’s “An Environmental Science Perspective on Population”; and Kurt Johnson’s “Scott Morrison’s Population Crisis”. All
It’s good to have hope, and even better to have good reasons your hopes will be realised. We haven’t had good reasons for hope for a long time. Since the GFC, we have lurched from one disappointment to another – we’ve felt let down by