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Michael Jacobs

Michael Jacobs is visiting professor in the Department of Political Science / School of Public Policy at UCL and at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics. He is co-editor of the Political Quarterly

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Blogs
Osborne's anti-green agenda is strangling growth
12 March 2013

The government's refusal to commit to a decarbonisation target is preventing the creation of tens of thousands of manufacturing jobs.

Blogs
Green social democracy can rescue capitalism from itself
19 January 2013

A growing number of businesses recognise that their self-interest is best served by an economy that is not fatally undermined by climate change.

Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Don't just act, talk!
02 July 2001

What matters is what works, ministers say. Wrong, argues Michael Jacobs. Means count at least as muc

Politics
Labour's new tax bombshell
11 June 2001

The 2nd Term - Within just a few weeks, ministers may come to regret one crucial election p

Politics
Give us more bank holidays
05 March 2001

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Give us more bank holidays

Politics
Let local councils vary income tax
29 January 2001

NS/Fabian Society Second-Term Agenda - Let local councils vary income tax

Ideas
The New Statesman Essay - Blair's biggest U-turn
27 November 2000

This is the year that Labour went back to tax and spend. But can ministers convince a deeply sceptic

Politics
Shock: King Herod turns green
13 November 1998

Michael Jacobs thinks that, before very long, we really will have an energy tax

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