On Local Spending: Update 2 – Short Circuit
Richard Douthwaite (1942-2011) was an economist and ecologist. He was most well known for a couple of excellent and influential books. The first of these, ‘The Growth Illusion’ explored how growth, as...
View ArticleOn Local Spending: Update 3 – Local Multiplier Effect
The Local Multiplier Effect – sometimes also known as the Local Premium – has been referred to, and brief explanations of the concept given, a couple of times in the previous posts in this series ‘On...
View ArticleOn Local Spending: Update 4 – Mid Term Report
It’s the 15th September, and I have reached the halfway point of this little project. I thought it worth sharing a few thoughts about what I’ve been up to and giving a progress report on what the stats...
View ArticleOn Local Spending: The Bristol Pound
By good fortune, in the context of my series of posts on Local Spending, a significant scheme to promote local spending is starting on this very day – it launched a short time before writing this....
View ArticleOn Local Spending: Update 5 – it’s not just about the money
I’ve focused pretty much exclusively on the economic aspects of Local Spending in the previous posts in this series. But it is important to think about other benefits that come from keeping things...
View ArticleOn Local Spending: Update 6 – criticisms of the Local Multiplier Effect
I’m convinced, and I hope you are that the Local Multiplier Effect is a genuine benefit to local communities, and warrants making an effort to concentrate your spending in the local community. I’ve...
View ArticleOn Local Spending: Update 7 – The Final Reckoning
Well, not quite the final reckoning. There is more to say about the way this went, the choices I had and the choices I made, the assumptions and the problems, but having reached the 1st October, my...
View ArticleOn Food and Farming – the Common Agricultural Policy
I’ve been mulling over writing on issues around food and farming for some time, looking at our relationship with the countryside, our expectations for cheap produce, and the value we place on the...
View ArticleOn Food and Inequality
I’ve been thinking a lot about food lately. Actually, I always do, which might explain why my clothes don’t fit me as well as they used to, but apart from my own gluttony, there are serious reasons for...
View ArticleOn Gender Stereotyping
I seem to have stirred up a bit of a fuss in the local paper, The Argus. On Saturday, I was looking through the newspaper (not the Argus) and a catalogue for Halfords fell out, advertising mostly kids...
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