Awakening to a new economics
This weekend I will be at Hilfield Friary attending a retreat entitled ‘Reconnecting to the Divine in Nature’, something I am very much looking forward to. For those of you … Continue reading “Reconnecting to Divine in Nature”
Guy Standing is a radical economist and the author of the counter-cultural The Plunder of the Commons and Basic Income. Both of those books looked at what we share and … Continue reading Prof. Guy Standing: The Politics of Time
All life happens within limits – we all get 24 hours a day and our allotted lifespan. Everything unfolds within the natural laws of gravity and thermodynamics and a thousand … Continue reading Book review: Limitarianism, by Ingrid Robeyns
“The questions that really began to stand out to me were questions about wealth and poverty, but I also started digging deeply into environmental questions. I started to see that … Continue reading Talk: Steve McMullen on faith and economy
Catch up with this talk from Oli Mould, Professor of Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London. Oli Mould explores his forward-thinking book Seven Ethics against Capitalism, in conversation … Continue reading Talk: Oli Mould on Seven Ethics Against Capitalism
Join us for a conversation on ‘Faith and the Economy’ between John Payne and Prof. Steve McMullen, who is a professor of economics at Hope College in the US, executive … Continue reading Join us for a talk on faith and economics
I was reading Amitav Ghosh’s book The Nutmeg’s Curse recently. It’s a book that ranges widely across climate change, colonialism, literature and history, spun out from the story of the … Continue reading A self-fulfilling culture of selfishness
Most of us will have heard of the Seven Deadly Sins. They have turned up in literature and film, and will be familiar to many well beyond the Christian tradition. … Continue reading The Seven Social Sins
Joy in Enough 