From banking to the climate, writes George Monbiot, the wreckage of short-termism is stark, and the need for a 100-year committee is plain.

We should design a system in which we worship the invisible heart of society rather the invisible hand of the market economy, says Andrew Simms

In the last week, stock markets the world over have been showing the classic signs of bipolar disorder: euphoric, manic, hysterical highs followed by the deepest depression. But, as Gerry Gold reports, there are clear external causes

Tony Benn argues that the credit crunch is the result of too much economic power ending up in too few hands

Should we be comforted by the recent ‘rallying’ of the stock market? Gerry Gold thinks not.

The economic crisis is petty by comparison to the nature crunch, says George Monbiot But they have the same cause.

The current financial crisis provides the ideal opportunity to implement tax reforms that would finance the conversion to eco-friendly industry: an environmental Keynesianism that would pull the world out of economic ruin and social chaos while getting the runaway global financial system under control, argues Susan George

Gerry Gold is hardly surprised by the latest financial crisis. And the solution is not to prop up the system that brought it about, as our politicians seem to think

Media Lens on the inherent instability of capitalism and the false promise of neoliberalism.