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Month: December 2017

Austerity

The Guardian: UK government warned over sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty

December 4, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

One in five of the population of the UK live in poverty – this includes 8 million working-age adults, 4 million children and 1.9 million pensioners. The not surprising news is that much worse is […]

Economics

Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts by Heikki Patomäki

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, an academic with passions which, despite the scholastic format (and price) of his newest book,Disintegrative Tendencies in […]

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Climate Crisis

New Economics Foundation – FRACKING: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

HOW LONG CAN THE GOVERNMENT PUSH CLEAN AND DIRTY ENERGY AT THE SAME TIME? By David Powell – New Economics Foundation’s Environment Lead, heading up the thinking, research and campaigning around issues such as healthy […]

National Politics

Simon Wren-Lewis: If we treat plutocracy as democracy, democracy dies

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is probably one of the finest blogs that Simon Wren-Lewis has ever written. It is a brilliant political and media  analysis. Read here  

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EU politics

Anthony Barnett: The Lure of Greatness

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anthony Barnett discusses his new book, The Lure of Greatness, Part 1 – LabourTube    

Finance

Ireland’s tax deals help fuel global inequality: Joseph Stiglitz

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ireland has become one of the most egregious peddlers of tax deals to transnational corporations. The EU, whose president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, is himself infamous for initiating and promoting similar tax evasion […]

Finance

Irish Examiner: Eight of top 100 multinationals pay no tax on profits

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

See the link above. These numbers from the article say it all: “Eight of the 100 companies with the highest taxable income had effective tax rates of zero, including some which had negative rates — […]

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EU politics

John Rapley – Britain’s Slow Suicide Sort of Makes Sense

December 2, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight of the Money Gods’, which was reviewed in BRAVE NEW EUROPE Cross-posted from John’s blog brixtonsubversity We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on […]

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David Whyte – Catalonia: the promise of a republic built on civil disobedience

December 1, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

When many nations in the EU come under pressure one suddenly realises how thin the democratic veneer is. This is of little surprise, as the principal raison d’être of the EU is economic, better said […]

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Visions of Inequality – From the French Revolution to the End of the Cold War by Branko Milanović

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Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Although the topic of inequality is vital to today’s discussions about politics and economics, it is surprising how little importance was attributed to it in the past. Until the […]

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Ben Wray: The Ministry for the Future – book review

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Kim Stanley Robinson’s acclaimed climate novel (2020, Orbit Books) has been praised far and wide, from Andreas Malm to Barack Obama. Robinson tells a gripping story about what our near future may look like, underpinned […]

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