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Month: February 2018

Corruption

Romania Insider.com: Protesters start gathering in Bucharest after justice minister’s announcement

February 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Once again the Social Democrats in Romania are trying to destroy the nation’s justice system that keeps interfering in their endemic corruption. It is only thanks to the citizens of Romania, who repeatedly turn out […]

Fake News

The Guardian: Jeremy Corbyn rejects spy ‘smears’ and takes on press critics

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We shall have to get used to this. As the political parties enforcing neo-liberal policies increasingly lose their credibility, corporate media will try to save the day, resorting to disinformation. This is one of the […]

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Economics

Alexander Tziamalis – Why our obsession with GDP ignores harm done to welfare and the world

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Shutterstock Alexander Tziamalis, Sheffield Hallam University One of the first things economics students learn about is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is also a central concept in many political debates, including Brexit. Will it rise? […]

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Energy

Climate News Network – Fairer world may mean more modest dreams

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

To achieve a fairer world, humans must think again about how they manage the only planet at their disposal. By Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]

Economics

Positive Money – Why I Care About Sovereign Money

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Neo-liberalism has been so successful, among other reasons, that most people do not understand economics. Austerity would never have been possible with well-informed citizens. Positive Money is trying to disseminate knowledge concerning money – something […]

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Economics

Laurie Laybourn-Langton: Lies, damn lies, and GDP

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

GDP is not fit for purpose. This is something many know, but upon which hardly anyone is acting. Read here Also see here

Finance

Basic Income Earth Network: Finland shares unconditional money, but the public view remains polarised

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A good update on the Universal Basic Income experiment in Finland. Read here  

Austerity

The Guardian: UK millennials second worst-hit financially in developed world, says study

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Neo-liberalism is out to get the young. They are especially vulnerable. They have little experience in self-organisation and do not vote. Greece  is the victim of German neo-liberalsim, Britain’s current situtation  is the result of […]

Corruption

Is ECB planning prison in its headquarters for Board of Governors?

February 19, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Two members of the European Central Bank Board of Governors are being investigated for corruption: Yannis Stournaras of Greece and now Ilmars Rimsevics of Latvia. Both are heads of their nation’s central banks. Maybe the […]

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Economics

Open Democracy – Can radical social democracy save us?

February 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

  Paul Mason, Dr Faiza Shaheen, Anthony Barnett and Dr Johnna Montgomerie discuss whether radical social democracy offers a way out of the crisis of neoliberalism, and what that means for future economic policy.   […]

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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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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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