Can Labour de-Commodify Higher Education? It has a Minor Problem
Guy Standing
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Labour must Revive the Blue Commons
Guy Standing argues for the revival of the commons of the sea. Current policies result in over fishing , pollution and ongoing privatisation of rights that we currently own in common.
He calls for the end of auctions by Crown Estate of billions of square miles of sea bed to multi-national companies.
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Progressives should embrace Eco-Fiscal Policy: a Commons Capital Fund
The omni-shambles of Liz Truss was more than an ideological experiment backfiring. It was the culmination of 12 years of ineptitude, marked by the weakly opposed fleecing of the social fabric through austerity, and forty years during which rentier capitalism has become entrenched. While Rishi Sunak will delight his friends in the financial markets, the
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An Era of Chronic Uncertainty: Time for Basic Income
By Guy Standing We are living in an age of chronic uncertainty, in which crises pile into one another, plunging millions of people deeper into insecurity, impoverishment, stress and ill-health. There was the financial crash of 2008, a decade of austerity, a series of six pandemics culminating in Covid, with more to follow, and now
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The Blue Commons: Combating Rentier Capitalism in the Sea
The global privatisation of the sea For most of human history, the sea has been seen as a commons. In the Justinian Codex of AD529-534 – regarded universally as the base of common law – four types of property were defined – private, state, nobody’s (res nullius) and commons (res communes). The sea was firmly
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The Neoliberal Origins of Russia’s War
The evil being perpetrated by Russia will not be defeated by military means alone. A transformation of our own societies must be achieved.
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Labour should not back another Job Furlough
The policy is uniquely flawed, with multiple faults. Of course, if government throws over £60 billion of subsidies to a minority of firms and workers, that will be popular with the recipients. But a scheme should be judged by what it does for the many, not the few, and for its opportunity cost.
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Care and the Pandemic: a comment in reply to Sue Himmelweit
For three hundred years, care work and care labour have been woefully trivialised or ignored by economists. One is inclined to think this is partly due to the domination of the subject by men until recently. But it is also true that the subject is incredibly complex, partly because the very idea of ‘care’ is
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The Threat of Extinction: Dismantle Rentier Capitalism Now
Among the most depressing aspects of the latest IPCC report is the predictable lamentations by the usual suspects trotting out platitudes about the last chance to do something to stop the era of extinction rushing towards us all. Where is the acknowledgement from the likes of John Kelly and Alokh Sharma or sundry other spokespersons
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New publication – The NHS as Social Commons
The Progressive Economy Forum is today publishing a short essay by economist Guy Standing on how the left can redefine its defence of the National Health Service – treating it not merely as a service provider for the unwell but a “socail commons” for the whole of society. Guy argues that successive governments, both New
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