The Fiscal Summit Counter-Narrative: Part Two, Defining Fiscal Sustainability
New blog source Corrente I found that is spreading Modern Monetary Theory ideas. It gives a well recorded account of a Fiscal Counter Summit with all of the MMT big hitters. The second part includes Bill Mitchell which I excerpt here to give some southern hemisphere balance on our Smart Taxes blog. He says in short "the sustainable goal of the economy should be the zero waste of the people in the economy… . as a consequence of the way we structure our economy and the way that policy intervenes to manipulate the economy.”
New Feasta submission to the Consultation on Climate Change Policy
Feasta recently made a submission to the Irish government's Consultation on Climate Change policy. It addresses fossil fuel emissions, carbon cycles and sinks, the transition to a sustainable economy and lastly the need for a climate law.
Report from the McPlanet conference
Broken promises and naive expectations - that's how many people at the McPlanet Conference held recently in Berlin clearly felt about the last two decades of global environmental policy. They believe that an imperfect-but-better alternative exists: protecting and enhancing the commons and community-based protection of biological resources worldwide, including in regions such as sub-Saharan Africa where land-grabbing is currently rife.
Latest paper on climate change by Jim Hansen
Jim Hansen’s latest paper, shortly to appear in Proceedings from the Natural Academy of Sciences, is comprehensive and well argued. His discussion of the possibility of taking a legal approach to tackling greenhouse gas emissions, taking into account the rights of young people and future generations, ties in with the Feasta climate group’s ideas as described in Sharing for Survival. …
Philadelphians are smart enough to understand a land value tax…
Professor Frank Convery believes that Irish people will never accept land value taxation even though it is the best kind of property tax: and he knows it is because he participated in the EEA conference of environmental taxation in Dublin 2010, which showcased site value tax as an ‘environmental tax’. Maybe he thinks Irish people are too thick to get the message of what is in their interest. It might help if they were actually given the information and offered the choice, don’t you think?
