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Tag Archives: inequality
What’s gender go to do with the viable economy?
A small, thoughtful group met in Manchester City Centre to consider some of the key features of Steady State Manchester’s flagship policy proposals, the Viable Economy on a sunny summer’s night. We talked about the gender implications of the different … Continue reading
Posted in Greater Manchester, key concepts, Viable Economy
Tagged café conversations, DivaManc, gender, Greater Manchester, inequality, intersectionality, land, policy, women
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Living within limits to Growth: How?
Living within limits to Growth – how do we do it? Talk given by Mark H Burton, Steady State Manchester, Newcastle upon Tyne, 6 May, 2017. Here are the notes and illustrations used in this talk. It covers the following … Continue reading
Universal Basic Income: Is it the only cornerstone of a just society?
Read this as a pdf Carolyn Kagan Steady State Manchester The momentum in favour of universal basic income is gathering. John McDonnell, the Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, recently announced the Labour Party was establishing a working group to investigate … Continue reading
So what would we do? Towards an alternative strategy for the city region
Download the Working Paper here It is easy to be critical. We are critical of the way our city and regional leaders have generally tackled the difficult problem of economic, social and environmental viability. We see their approach as based … Continue reading
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Tagged CLES, climate change, community resilience, CRESC, economic localisation, economy, exchange, fiscal gap, Greater Manchester Combined Authority, hidden economy, inequality, investment, Mark Burton, money, productivity, replacement economy, Working Paper
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The Viable Economy serialised – About Consumerism
We continue the serialisation of our intervention, The Viable Economy, this time with Chapter 11, “About Consumerism”, in which we make it clear that our opposition is not to individual people as consumers (calling for behaviour change), but to the … Continue reading
The Viable Economy serialised – About Work and Income.
We continue the serialisation of our intervention, The Viable Economy, this time with just one section, on Work and Income. You can download the whole pamphlet as a pdf file, here. If you like it, why not make a donation … Continue reading
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Tagged bioregion, economy, income, inequality, Living Wage, social justice, unemployment, viable economy, work
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The Viable Economy serialised – About Space, Democracy and Ownership
We continue the serialisation of our intervention, The Viable Economy with the sections on Space and on Democracy and Ownership. But you can download the whole pamphlet as a pdf file, here. If you like it, why not make a … Continue reading
Posted in In Place of Growth, Viable Economy
Tagged co-ops, community spaces, corporations, democracy, eco-region, firms, globalisation, Governance, inequality, Manchester, ownership, policy, serialised, social ownership, sources, spatial, subsidiarity, The Viable Economy serialised –, theory, viable economy
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The Viable Economy serialised – About Growth and Resilience
We continue the serialisation of our intervention, The Viable Economy with the sections on Growth and Resilience. But you can download the whole pamphlet as a pdf file, here. If you like it, why not make a donation towards our … Continue reading
