Volume 17 No.1 January – February 2025

Contents

To save the planet, disable the global consumer-corporate machine
To reduce greenhouse gas emissions we must get inside the machine and turn it off, or transform it
Geoff Davies

The 2024 Nobel Prize for economics
Revealing the bankruptcy of conventional economics
Ted Trainer

Can anyone concisely propose a theory of systems change?
We face a complex, multi-dimensional polycrisis straddling many disciplines
Wayne McMillan

Consumption is driving global greenhouse gas emissions
Exposing the impediments to planned degrowth will benefit environmental protection, social justice, human rights and peace
Mark Diesendorf

More coal and gas, less renewables – what a nuclear power plan for Australia would really mean
John Quiggin

Mainstream distribution myths
How globalization and the rules of the modern economy are structured to make the wealthy wealthier
Lars Syll

I have learned a few Things
In particular, that a life dedicated to learning what’s true and to expressing truth is the only kind of life that can ever satisfy
Caitlin Johnstone

What is Modern Monetary Theory?
Governments that issue their own currency are not fiscally constrained in the way that is represented by most politicians, economists and commentators
William Thomson

Australia needs better ways of storing renewable electricity for later
That’s where ‘flow batteries’ can help
Maria Skyllas-Kazacos

Understanding society via self-discovery
By understanding and changing how we think and act, we unlock the potential to transform not only ourselves but the societies around us
Asad Zaman