We're told governments need to balance the books like a household. We're told GDP growth is the solution to all our ills. We're told markets will sort out climate change if we just get the incentives right. We've been told all of this for decades and yet here we are.

Economies struggling, stuck in a never-ending cycle of boom and bust, requiring permanent growth on a finite planet just to keep functioning. Climate change very much not sorted — tipping points being crossed, and the worst still to come. The same thinking that hollows out public services is the same thinking that burns moorlands and drives species to extinction.

These posts explore the political choices hiding behind economic 'rules', the links between neoliberal economics and the conservation crises playing out in our own backyard, and alternative frameworks like Modern Monetary Theory and degrowth economics which work with the genuine physical restrictions of the world in which we live.