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DeSmog UK – UK Government Details Plan to Phase Out Coal by 2025

January 6, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The end of coal in Britain. The UK government plans to ban coal to produce energy in 2025. What happens when the Hinkley Point nuclear reactor C is not finished by the middle of 2025 […]

Economics

Chris Dillow: HOW INEQUALITY PERSISTS

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why do people tolerate the current obscene inequality in the world? There could be a number of reasons. Read here  

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EU politics

Stephen I. Pogany – Europe’s illiberal states: why Hungary and Poland are turning away from constitutional democracy

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The former Soviet satellite nations had to accept neo-liberalism to join the EU. Political liberalism was not a prerequisite. Steven I Pogany provides some unusually good insights concerning East European nations in the EU. Stephen […]

Economics

Dani Rodrik: Ten commandments for economists

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics’ according to Disraeli. Dani Rodrik gives some advice for the ecnommist and non-economist on how to deal with the controversies surrounding economics. Read here […]

Economics

Kim Moody: Modern capitalism has opened a major new front for strike action – logistics

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Capitalism’s new Achilles heel: logistic centres. Read here  

Economics

Richard Murphy – The reasons to tax

January 4, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Politicians claim that government spending is limited by taxes: “You cannot spend what you don’t have”. Nonsense explains Richard Murphy. Governments spend the money they print, something only they are allowed to do. Thus there […]

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Bill Mitchell: Ireland – not as rosy as the official story might suggest

January 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ireland has made itself look ridiculous. Official figures showed the Irish economy grew by an unbelievable 26pc in 2016 – more than three times faster than first thought. This was quickly dismissed by economists as “farcical”. […]

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Uncategorized

Owen Jones: I don’t like Brexit – I just don’t see how it can be stopped

January 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In his article Owen Jones makes a number of important points: Brexit was and is a democratic decision by a sovereign people. To denigrate this is anything but democratic. The leaders of the movement for […]

Economics

Steven Hall: Why have wages been allowed to stagnate?

January 3, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are many reasons for stagnant wages but the most salient was the sell out by the leftist parties, in Europe the Social Democrats. Read here  

EU politics

An interview with Steven Forti: Two Catalonias

January 2, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A lengthy but very informative interview with Steven Forti, Professor of Contemporary History at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Read here      

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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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 […]

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

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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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