Tag Archives: inequality

The Post Growth Challenge entries (1)

Posted on 20 April, 2021 by The Steady State Manchester team

We received some interesting entries for our Post Growth Challenge.  There weren’t so many as we’d have liked but, as they are all of interest, it does mean that we can share them all. We purposely called it a challenge … Continue reading →

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What’s gender go to do with the viable economy?

Posted on 2 August, 2017 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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Living within limits to Growth: How?

Posted on 8 May, 2017 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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Universal Basic Income: Is it the only cornerstone of a just society?

Posted on 15 March, 2017 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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So what would we do? Towards an alternative strategy for the city region

Posted on 6 November, 2016 by The Steady State Manchester team

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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The Viable Economy serialised – About Consumerism

Posted on 5 March, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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The Viable Economy serialised – About Work and Income.

Posted on 3 February, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

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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The Viable Economy serialised – About Space, Democracy and Ownership

Posted on 9 January, 2015 by The Steady State Manchester team

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 →

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