Regional economics

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Their crisis, our challenge by David Harvey (March 2009)

In a far reaching interview with Red Pepper, David Harvey argues that the current financial crisis and bank bail-outs could lead to a massive consolidation of the banking system and a return to capitalist ‘business as usual’ – unless there is sustained revolt and pressure for a dramatic redistribution and socialisation of wealth

Credit where credit’s due by Mick Mcateer (January 2009)

Credit unions are more than ever the essential financial alternatives to traditional banks for the poor, says Mick Mcateer

The world after Keynes by Stuart Holland (January 2009)

Keynes is back in fashion, but his policies did not give to the state – at all levels – the leading role in investment that is now necessary, argues Stuart Holland. What is required is a radical rebalancing of relations between economic and social power, led by democratised state institutions

When the bucks stop by Jim Stanford (July 2008)

The current financial crisis highlights fundamental failings in a global economy run for private profit rather than broader social opportunity. Jim Stanford explains how risky financial speculation created a bubble that has now burst, and argues that we need to refocus attention on a real economy founded on the production of actual goods and services