Feasta – Page 2 – The Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability

Pitchforks and Arcadia: overcoming fear with a new vision

In the first of our 2021 podcast series 'Bridging the Gaps', Mark Garavan talks about the reasons behind the anger that so many people are feeling at the moment and suggests ways to build a more positive narrative about the future.

Statement on the US Rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement

FEASTA encourages policymakers and activists to take the opportunity, as the US re-engages with the Paris Climate Agreement, to include a science-based, equity-based, and people-based method of achieving the 1.5 degree goal: CapGlobalCarbon.

De-growth Discussion 3: inflation, deflation or (probably) stagflation

In what ways might a contracting economy bring about a massive redistribution of wealth, and which of these ways would be preferable? Tim Watkins and Brian Davey discuss this and many other topics in their exploration of the relationship between energy and inflation in the modern economy, and the risk from economic models which fail to account for declining energy.

Podcast: economic narratives and systems innovation

Argentinian economist and Wellbeing Economy Alliance member Mariana Mirabile talks with Caroline Whyte and Seán Ó'Conláin about the problematic assumptions in neoclassical economics and the need for a systems-based analytic framework.

De-growth Discussion 2: Nottingham or (probably) Bust

Brian Davey and Tim Watkins explore the reasons behind Nottingham's grave economic difficulties and argue that many other cities in industrialised countries are facing similar challenges.

De-growth Discussion 1

Topics covered in this first instalment of a series of video discussions between Brian Davey and Tim Watkins include the energy supply, Brexit, the Bank of England, discretionary income and bankrupt local authorities.

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