Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Some thoughts about the Job Guarantee
Wren -Lewis looks at the economic effects of a permament Job Guarantee policy. Read here
Year: 2017
Energy
Climate Analytics: About 80% of EU and German, virtually all Polish coal plants non-compliant with new EU 2021 air pollution regulations
“For Germany, which accounts for about 30% of the EU coal fleet, around 80% of the coal fleet expected to be still operating in 2021 would not comply with the emissions standards under the new […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – It’s time the Treasury listened to the National Audit Office when it comes to government debt
Austerity is based not only on bad economics, but lies as well. As Richard Murphy demonstrates in this article Britain’s debt burden is not nearly as great as the government claims, which is its principal […]
Economics
Dan O’Neill – A Sustainable Economy
Economic growth remains the predominant policy goal in the UK. Section 108 of the Deregulation Act 2015 requires that any person exercising a regulatory function must have “regard to the desirability of promoting economic growth” […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow: THE POLITICS OF DEATH
In Germany there is an increasing practice by politicians and mainstream media to compare politics to a football match. Chris Dillow is right. For the elite it is a game. Stars come and go. One […]
Economics
Philip Arestis and Malcolm Sawyer – Why Does the Euro Area Have Such Low Growth and High Unemployment?
Since its inception the euro-area economies have been marked by poor economic performance. The causes have been the austerity policy agenda, so called “structural reforms,” and the failures to resolves the current account constraints on […]
Energy
DeSmog UK – Fracking Company Cuadrilla Pushed Lancashire Council to Remove ‘Biased’ Community Group Chair
Large corporations spend billions a year in purchasing political decisions – lobbying- from governments and politicians throughout the world. This policy of interfering in the democratic process however permeates down to the lowest levels of […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network: #ParadisePapers and the Big Four: in the words of a former insider
“Leading estimates show that profit shifting by multinational companies is responsible for tax revenue losses globally of $500 billion or more each year. Various document leaks, including the Paradise Papers and earlier LuxLeaks, have shown […]
EU politics
Robert de Vries and Aaron Reeves: Why do people care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
The authors identify a phenomenon that we saw in the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA: People identify with the rich and powerful – to which they will never belong – rather than […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – #ParadisePapers: residency for sale to the rich and famous
Among the scandals exposed by the Paradise Papers is that of residency for sale, something Tax Justice Network covered just last month (along with passports for sale) as a special feature in their monthly podcast […]