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Year: 2017

Finance

Mitch Feierstein: Google, Amazon, Facebook & Twitter are evil

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Big Four tech giants control most of the world’s information flow, drug and food supply. Google and Facebook tried to manipulate the recent presidential election by prioritising, and sometimes burying content altogether. Throughout the […]

Economics

Andrew Baker – The Finance Curse research agenda: what we learned

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A finance curse research agenda involves forensic dissection of financial dysfunction and pathology, helping to illuminate what needs to be put right Andrew Baker is a Faculty Professorial Fellow, SPERI This blog was first posted […]

EU politics

Tax Justice Network – Blacklisting the EU: Paradise lost?

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

On December 5 the EU will be publishing a list of jurisdictions that it considers to be non-cooperative in international tax matters. Today, we name the jurisdictions that we evaluate as meeting their published criteria, […]

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Econ in Motion – The first speculative bubble

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

   

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Mark Blyth – High Water Mark (November 2017)

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Cyber Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Social Democrats coalition, Net Neutrality, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, debt ceilings, Bit Coin and Prince Harry’s proposal. Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and […]

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Tax Justice Network – Who will be on the EU’s tax haven blacklist?

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

     

Economics

Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEBT FETISHISM

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Politics is dominated by a “lumpen intelligentsia”: “earnest types who enthuse about ideas, simplify them and believe fervently that their crude and wholesale application will solve complex social problems.” Read here  

Energy

The Guardian: Bitcoin mining consumes more electricity a year than Ireland

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Network’s estimated power use also exceeds that of 19 other European countries, consuming more than five times output of continent’s largest windfarm Read here  

Deregulation

Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here  

Economics

Richard Murphy – The Tories created two thirds of the UK’s national debt

November 27, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

An essential element of the neo-liberal discourse is that leftist political parties always increase the national debt; parties on the right do not. They are fiscally responsible. In his article Richard Murphy takes the trouble […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

Economics

The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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