Obey the law, and risk irreparable harm to a significant public interest, or break the law and safeguard it? Andrea Capussela writes that this dilemma was briefly the subject of debate in Italy. That nobody [...]
This briefing explains how the Green New Deal Bill, the first attempt to legislate for a Green New Deal in the UK would work, and how it would transform almost every aspect of our lives [...]
A year and a half ago there was a major university strike by academics and staff in the UK. They were resisting an attack on their union as well as the financialisation of their pension [...]
The ‘yellow vests’ vote at an assembly in Saint Nazaire, April 2019. Elise Lobbedez, Author provided Elise Lobbedez, EM Lyon Often perceived as disorganised, scattered and even violent, France’s “gilets jaunes” movement has taken many [...]
Not so long ago in a wee land not so far, far away…… Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Common Space I NEVER enjoy launch events which [...]
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 talks, 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.
In October/November we shall start a new series of talks under the motto "Putting Politics Back into Political Economy".
Talks are being held by:
Grace Blakeley
12 November: "Financialisation and the climate emergency"
7pm in the Monarch Bar, Skalitzer Straße 134, 10999 Berlin (U-Bahn station Kottbusser Tor)
Jason Hickel
28 November: "Climate Breakdown and the Degrowth Imperative"
Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ [...]
