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Month: November 2017

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Austerity

Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten – Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have stressed the violence of austerity. In 2013 David Stuckler and Sanjy Basu wrote a convincing book entitled “The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills” concerning the short […]

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here    

EU politics

Bill Mitchell: The EMU reform ruse

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a very long read, but there is probably no one in the world who knows in such detail  how and why the EU functions as Bill Mitchell. Part 1 Part 2    

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Economics

Lindsay Mackie – Good and bad productivity

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Just as wtih GDP, productivity as such is not good. It depends on the type of productivity as Lindsay Mackie explains. Lindsay Mackie was trained as a journalist in Scotland and joined The Guardian as a […]

No Picture
Economics

New Economics Foundation – TEN YEARS ON: RETHINKING MONEY AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The programme begins at 8:19. The sound is very poor. Sara Mahmoud, Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation Tony Greenham, Director of Economy Enterprise and Manufacturing, RSA Josh Ryan-Collins, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Innovation and […]

Economics

Larry Elliot: We’re being hurt by the fixation on economic growth at all costs

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a problem that we all have. We know that GDP is the wrong metric, but we still use it. It is like flying. Everyone know this is one of the worst causes of […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Disentangling the UK productivity problem

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

There has been a lot of speculation concerning stagnating productivity in the Western industrial nations. Britain has been particularly hard hit. There is much speculation concerning this development. Wren-Lewis offers an interesting analysis. Read here […]

Economics

Steve Keen – Can we avoid another financial crisis?

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is an excellent interview with Steve Keen. It is not as technical as is often the case with Keen and easily accesible to the non-economist Watch here

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Climate Crisis

Duncan Green – What are the politics of our survival as a species? Introducing the Climate Change Trilemma

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB Cross-posted from Duncan’s blog From Poverty to Power So a physicist, an anthropologist, and two political economists have lunch in the LSE canteen and start arguing […]

Environment

George Monbiot: Dirty air is killing our children. Why does the government let this happen?

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article applies not only for cars at school gates. Due to the fraud of Volkswagen and other car companies the air in most of our cities is polluted above the permissible levels. Besides government […]

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