Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy
A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here
Year: 2017
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: The EMU reform ruse
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
Economics
Lindsay Mackie – Good and bad productivity
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 […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – TEN YEARS ON: RETHINKING MONEY AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
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
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
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?
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
Climate Crisis
Duncan Green – What are the politics of our survival as a species? Introducing the Climate Change Trilemma
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?
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 […]
EU politics
Tamara Ehs – Austria: Dawn after the empty night of socialism?
Like so many social democratic parties in Europe the SPÖ in Austria is in crisis. Tamara Ehs asks if the party is capable of regenerating itself and what is the future of democracy in […]