by Andrew Simms | 19 June 2016 | Blog, Europe in 250 words
From returning finance to useful economic and social purpose, to tackling climate change and reversing inequality, European-wide coordination is vital. The New Weather Institute argues the case here on the future of Europe on the BBC’s World Business Report. The...
by Andrew Simms | 5 June 2016 | Blog, Europe in 250 words
The New Weather Institute works with the network, Economists for Rational Economic Policies (EREP), which explores the progressive case for the UK remaining in the European Union in its new publication, “Remain for Change: Building European solidarity for a democratic...
by Andrew Simms | 3 June 2016 | Blog
Prof Richard Murphy of City University thinks out loud about the prospect of a rapid transition in economic thinking and practise, in conversation with New Weather Institute’s Andrew Simms at the Hay Festival By Richard Murphy Andrew Simms and I had a lot of...
by Andrew Simms | 2 June 2016 | Blog
What can history teach us for the task of rapid transition in the face of climate change and corrosive inequality? Historian Molly Conisbee looks at how communities adapted during Britain’s dramatic urban growth and upheaval in the 18th and 19th centuries. She...
by Andrew Simms | 27 May 2016 | Blog
Creeping climatic upheaval and corrosive global inequality are like two threads pulling apart civilisation’s fabric. To survive and thrive we face an unprecedented challenge of rapid transition. But the way we live is locked-in by multiple factors. We are in the grip...
