Jim Chalmer’s essay in the February Monthly is an attempt to prepare us for a shift in the coming budget from the era of neoliberal domination to an approach where more attention is paid to non-economic factors. But we’ll need more than that to save us.
Most people have no idea how far beyond sustainable ways we are, nor do they realise that the planet cannot be saved unless we abandon our affluent-consumer-capitalist society. Recent admirable contributions to P and I have yet again raised alarm about the urgent and neglected
We are racing towards the catastrophic collapse of our bio-physical and social systems, driven by the capitalist economy. Gittins illustrates the trained incapacity of the conventional economic mind to get it. In a recent P and I article Ross Gittins endorses Rod Sims’ enthusiasm for