Photo by Fran Harvey / New Internationalist
Photo by Fran Harvey / New Internationalist
In this month's Put People First edition of New Internationalist, David Ransom looks at how the meltdown could signal the start of The Age Of Possibility and Vanessa Baird asks what changes the world economy needs.
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- Tobin or not Tobin
- By David Ransom, Monday, November 9, 2009
Why Put People First should claim some credit for Gordon Brown's conversion.
- The Austerity Stakes
- By David Ransom, Thursday, October 8, 2009
The Tories in Britain say we're all in the Age of Austerity together. But David Ransom prefers an Age of Possibility.
- Kleptocracy comes home
- By David Ransom, Wednesday, September 2, 2009
David Ransom argues that government by theft is no longer confined to the 'Third World' - nor oligarchy to the former Soviet Union.
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- Autumn cannibalism -- New Internationalist Blog
- The First World Debt Crisis
- David Ransom investigates the links between the current debt crisis, unregulated growth, and the lack of public control over economics.
- Solving insolvency
- As governments all over the world inject billions to stabilize the markets and restore faith in a flawed economic model, the debt crisis expands from the third world to the first world at an alarming rate. Wayne Ellwood discusses the need for a re-examination of the institution of global debt and what can be done to improve neutrality and fairness between debtors and creditors.
- Time for Tobin!
- A proposal to shift tax policy in order to stabilize the global markets and reduce speculation.
- Tax Justice and the Global Fiddle
- Investigating current inequities of global taxation.
- Redesigning the global economy
- A call to rebuild the global financial architecture to suit the needs of humans rather than the bottom line.
- Heavy surf & tsunamis
- Ellen Frank discusses the systemic failures of the financial markets leading to the Asian financial crisis of the late 90s.
- Double dealing
- Free-market ideologues do not practice as they preach as they bail out American firm, Long Term Capital Management while they urge Asian financial institutions accept bankruptcy and let the free-market run its course.
Join the campaign for a fairer future
- People and Planet
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The Ditch Dirty Development campaign gets right to the root of what makes climate change happen: money.
It is our money that RBS are using to extract tar sands, burn coal and fuel climate chaos. The potential for government to act on our behalf and curtail this damaging finance is massive. They owe it to us - we own RBS-NatWest! - War on Want
- War on Want fights poverty in developing countries in partnership and solidarity with people affected by globalisation. They are campaigning to make sure Gordon Brown puts poor people at the heart of the economic system.
- World Development Movement (WDM)
- WDM is campaigning and lobbying the British government for reforms that could make the global economy fairer and more sustainable. Get involved here: Global financial crisis: Time for a new economy.
- Jubilee Debt Campaign
- The global economy isn't working, yet world leaders seem determined just to patch it up. Jubilee Debt Campaign has joined with campaigners around the world to demand changes that put people and planet first.
- Action Aid
- The financial crisis is showing us what people in poor countries have known for years: the international economic system doesn't work. We need a new system -- one which puts people first.
- Casino Crash
- An initiative of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam and the Institute of Policy Studies in Washington DC. This website is an excellent source of critical analysis on the financial crisis.
- Take action today
- Call time on global greed and sign their joint petition »