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The Blog: Economics

Posted on April 7, 2025 by Peter Ellis

Affordable Essentials – A Fairer Economy in the first place

990 words / Reading time 5 mins   We all require affordable essentials. People rely on them for their most basic well-being. Yet, the economy does not deliver affordability as …

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Posted on March 12, 2025 by Barbara Williams

Irrational Economics

The illuminem sustainability journal has published an article of mine called Irrational economics. The article explains how our popular economic models for growth are engineering our own extinction, and suggests …

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Posted on March 3, 2025 by Peter Ellis

MAGA populism – Opportunity and Responsibility for liberalists, reformers and the ‘Left’

Extremist, autocratic, and self-interested leadership drives MAGA populism. It is a great paradox that their unfettered, neo-liberal capitalism causes public alienation and dissatisfaction with the status quo, yet they have …

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Posted on January 3, 2025 by Peter Ellis

And so…2024 teaches where 2025 can lead us

In Claire Keegan’s book, Small Things Like These, Bill Furlong, a merchant delivering coal in an Irish Town during a winter in the 1980s, having been on a journey of …

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Posted on September 15, 2024 by Peter Ellis

An inaugural post – A call to action for a fairer future

Reform leading to a fairer society begins with a choice. One we must all make. Accept the inheritance of ideas which tether us to the past or challenge them to …

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