Every so often humanity manages genuinely to surprise itself. Events to which we had previously assigned zero probability push us into what the ancient Greeks referred to as aporia: a state of intense bafflement urgently [...]
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future. Rachel Lurie is an Analyst at the Princeton University Investment Company. She graduated [...]
In this weekend’s long-read article, Grigoris Markou surveys the re-emergence of Marxist and Communist ideas in contemporary political discourse. Tracing the relationship between Marxism and Populism, Markou concludes: ‘convergence between populism and Marxism seems to be [...]
The EU political elite simply cannot shake off its subservience to financial corporations, as Carl Bildt’s tweet once again proves. Democracy plays no role in his vision for Europe. There will have to eventually be a [...]
“The idea that certain political decisions require high levels of knowledge and technical competency—and thus cannot be left simply to public democratic debate—is problematic for democracies, as it implies delegating public policy framing and decision [...]
BRAVE NEW EUROPE publishes expertise with a radical face and attitude concerning European politics and economics. We promote critical thinking and the creation of an alternative to neo-liberalism.
“Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” is a series of lectures, featuring some of the most prominent European heterodox economists, planned for this year and next in Berlin presented by BRAVE NEW EUROPE, the Helle Panke Foundation, and local groups of the Network for Pluralist Economics.
Next: 15 September with Ann Pettifor, winner of the Hannah-Arendt-Prize 2018 (in English,with a simultaneous translation in German).
Introductory lectures, especially for non-economists.
Venue and Time: Monarch, Skalitzerstr. 134, 10999 Berlin (U Bahn Kottbusser Tor) 7 pm open 6:30), Admission 2 €
30 January 2019 Steve Keen on Modern Monetary Theory
Book review by David Shirreff This is a passionate, well-argued plea for a European Britain, written by two avowedly socialist Remainers. They will not accept the standard disqualifier: that the EU is a collection of [...]
