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Professor
Cardiff Business School
Wales
(commenting on "A (Crumbling) Wall of Money")
" I found it ["A (Crumbling) Wall of Money"] really helpful. I have been trying to understand this stuff since Northern Rock went down, well since Enron went down . . . and the subprime phenomenon hit the headlines . . . It is really important paper. From now on, we all have to include the issues it raises in our work, whether on mining, food, land, pensions, biofuels. "
NGO
working on corporations and agriculture
UK
" This is a great paper ["A (Crumbling) Wall of Money"]. I learned masses, i.e. re consumer credit expansion partly caused by securitisation, and re. bankers passing on risk while maintaining access to reward in several ways, debt finance being tax deductible, and securitisation helping govts dodge EU deficit requirements, hedge funds being biggest winners from the carbon market. Also about the lobbying and social networks that have promoted the current arrangements. "
Eurodad
Belguim
" The best and most cogent explanation not only of what is going on but why and who benefits that I have read. "
Counterbalance/ Bretton Woods Project
UK
Commenting on ["A (Crumbling) Wall of Money"]
" Congratulations on your excellent work ["A (Crumbling) Wall of Money"] . . . I have been looking for somewhere to send my students which explains these issues - including the acronyms for some time - and your piece does exactly that. Also, as someone who believes that on a fundamental level finance is epiphenomenal, and mostly just reflects power in society, it is such a relief to see someone writing about it who can humanise the subject and show how class power and greed is behind the 'technology' of finance. "
Lecturer in Politics and Development
University of Manchester
UK
" Many, many thanks for letting me read ["A (Crumbling) Wall of Money"], the result of relentless analysis, as well as prodigious research. I hope that . . . you'll also write a shorter version, say 15-20 pp., targeted to organizers, and perhaps a still shorter popular version suitable for translation. I also hope that the Corner House will video or at least audio tape a presentation of the paper, which merits the largest possible circulation. "
Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
USA
" I agree with your description of ["Carbon Trading"] as 'brilliant'; I don't think it is 'out of date', or will become so for some time. "
Sustainability consultant
UK
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Lecturer
University of Oxford
UK
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The Phillippines
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Brazil
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Lecturer
James Cook University
Australia
" Thanks for your most recent articles - I found them extremely useful and engrossing, as usual. "
Lecturer
City University of New York
USA
" ["Carbon Trading"] will no doubt go down as a groundbreaking expose of one of neoliberalism's most flawed creations, not just because of the straightforward eloquence of the presentation, but because of the sheer amount of research that went into the compilation . . . With over 900 citations, reading it is sort of like discovering an enormous termite nest, leaving one both amazed and horrified at what's been going on unseen . . . If you even remotely care about climate change, read this book. "
Book reviewer
Fragments
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Lecturer
University of Sussex
UK
" Great stuff, thank you so much for providing the backing for the arguments [in When Markets Are Poison]. I have been trying to point out some of this to people - the invention of a new commodity, almost virtual, etc, without really having gone into it - but you have provided chapter and verse and elegantly too. "
EcoNexus
UK
" I've managed to read your excellent essay ["Regulation as Corruption"]. I think your analysis is rock solid - I was just thinking that it fits rather well . . . with the panic around climate change being an opportunity not for genuinely progressive regulation, but as continuation of a neoliberal project. . . .[I]t's a theory that might suggest other ways in which regulation is inevitably 'corrupt'; and also hints at the difficulty of getting 'uncorrupt' regulation: in other words, it's a way of suggesting that 'corrupt' is redundant when talking about regulation! Thanks once again for an important paper. "
contributor
'no carbon trade list serve'
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Rockefeller Brothers Foundation
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Kurdish Human Rights Project
UK
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Lecturer
University of Sussex
UK
" I must say I was really delighted to go through your paper. For the first time, many issues suddenly became clear in my mind . . . Someone like me who dislikes to read anything to do with finances found the information, logic and connections interesting enough to finish reading 18-20 pages in one go! "
Women's health activist
Delhi
India
" I benefited tremendously from your thought provoking presentation [on carbon trading] at Rochester Community and Technical College, Rochester, Minnesota, a few months back. Thank you for coming to Rochester and thank you for the 'enlightenment'. ... ... Thank you, too, for what you are doing in a broader sense for everyone everywhere. "
medical doctor
USA
" I am writing to thank you for all the helpful material that you have sent me ... Your help in my research can't be underestimated; particularly the paper on the financialization of carbon trading was brilliant! . . . you're great and eloquent critic of carbon trading. "
Al-Jazeera television network
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Transparency International
UK
(Commenting on 10 April 2008 UK High Court ruling in SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
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Kurdish Human Rights Project
UK
(Commenting on 10 April 2008 UK High Court ruling in SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
" Well done, Thank you, keep fighting the government fight back for the right to be corrupt and secretive in the noble cause of selling anything to anyone. "
Individual
UK
(Commenting on 10 April 2008 UK High Court ruling in SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
" Congratulations to you & CAAT from . . . here in Manila. Now to stop the UK government changing the law again, once again perverting the course of justice (. . . we live in a banana republic without the bananas!) "
UK/Philippine NGO
(Commenting on 10 April 2008 UK High Court ruling in SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
" I watched the news on BBC World, 1 am Philippine time. Cheering again. Great to see blatant government complicity and cover-up on corporate corruption seen for what it is. "
Philippine Indigenous People's organization
(Commenting on 10 April 2008 UK High Court ruling in SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
" Many, many congratulations! Reported in today's papers here, in The Hindu! "
Professor
JNU University
Delhi
India
(Commenting on April 2008 UK High Court ruling SFO-BAE-corruption legal challenge)
"Your work has inspired me to do what I do. You are the international driver of a debate that is critically important to California. I will continue to follow and admire your work and look forward to continued discussion and trouble together. The California environmental justice movement appreciates you very much and keep up with the fight."
The Verde Group, US
commenting on The Corner House's work on climate
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Climate Justice Programme, UK/US
commenting on Carbon Trading
"One of the most important books written in our lifetime."
Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, Chicago
commenting on Carbon Trading
"An absolutely splendid work, easily the best discussion of this brutal subject ... miles ahead of Gore's Inconvenient Truth."
Professor
University of California, Santa Cruz
USA
commenting on Carbon Trading
"You're an inspiration to us all! Keep up the great work."
California Communities against Toxics
"I am amazed at the depth of your research on carbon trading. No one in mainstream universities is doing work on this scale or critical depth on this issue."
Professor
University of Edinburgh
Scotland
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UNDP adviser and lecturer on post-development
commenting on April 2008 High Court ruling in Saudi Arabia-BAE-corruption legal challenge
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FERN, UK,
commenting on April 2008 High Court ruling in Saudi Arabia-BAE-corruption legal challenge
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commenting on April 2008 High Court ruling in Saudi Arabia-BAE-corruption legal challenge
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commenting on April 2008 High Court ruling in Saudi Arabia-BAE-corruption legal challenge
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South African activist
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NGO activist
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Professor
School of Forestry and Environmental Sciences
Yale University
USA
"The rise of neo-Malthusian logic -- blaming population as the root of all environmental evils -- has become a milestone in the New Right ideology and a buttress to developing the new market economy so as to boost corporate profits. "The Malthus Factor" is a considerably thorough review of the politics and myths behind this logic. In our struggle against the forces of Unreason imposing unsustainable development in the name of solving the economic and ecological problems of the poor countries, this book will be an effective tool."
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"It is hard to praise [the Corner House Briefing Papers] too highly. The quality of the research and density of information makes them much more informative than many much longer books. But don't let that word 'density' put you off. Corner House publications are accessible and definitely user-friendly."
Spectre, radical internationalist quarterly
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The Radical Mothers' Voice, USA
"Your publication[s] always contain new and useful information on the issues covered by our citizens' movement. But we want to express our particular thanks for 'If Cloning is the Answer... ' This paper brought together the areas of environment, health and economic justice in a wholistic approach that is greatly needed -- but generally avoided for reasons you so compellingly point out."
Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice, Korea
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Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies, India
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Corporate Europe Observatory
"I found the paper ["Toward a Different Debate in Environmental Accounting"] massively stimulating, entertainingly novel, encouragingly practicable and, to the extent that I understand you on a first pass, the first person to achieve any coherence at all on the carbon accounting issue. . . . your analysis was superb; thanks."
Professor
St Andrews University
Scotland
". . . a very good and radical intellectual analysis of some of our problems that are also pertinent to 'agrofuels' . . . replace 'carbon offset forestry' with 'agrofuels' and you will see how this early analysis is applicable to our common concern."
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