Monthly Archives: July 2012

Hateable ads

Posted on July 20, 2012 by RW

There’ve been a couple of outstandingly hateable ads on TV lately. One’s for Land Rover.  It centres on a tired-looking middle aged chap, running a dry cleaner’s.  In come a youngish couple.  They plonk some beaten up clothes on his … Continue reading →

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Those sweet nineteen nineties

Posted on July 20, 2012 by RW

A quick thing.  On the shuffle this morning came Clint Boon’s White No Sugar.  What I fully recommend to anyone who don’t know it.  The thing being – it’s a song about the internet!  I mean, about the internet itself, … Continue reading →

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Been reading Reinhart & Rogoff’s This Time Is Different lately.  Well, I say reading, but there’s been a large amount of skipping, drifting off, and putting it back in my bag.  It’s got a hell of a reputation, but it’s … Continue reading →

Posted on July 11, 2012 by RW | Leave a comment

The contradictions of environmental Keynesianism

Posted on July 11, 2012 by RW

It’s surely a bad do to be linking to one’s own writing all the time, but here goes another one.  I am delighted to have recently been published in the online journal / some say e-zine, Climate & Capitalism.  Said … Continue reading →

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The five limits to growth

Posted on July 1, 2012 by RW

Here’s a short hand sketch of a rather big set of ideas I’ve been working on, and will turn into a proper essay in due course. Many of us are familiar with the Limits to Growth, the Meadows et al … Continue reading →

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