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Month: March 2018

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Heiner Flassbeck – The market economy, fair wages, and poverty in rich Germany

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Germany has a balanced budget, a massive current account surplus, and low unemployment. Why then is there so much poverty in such a wealthy nation? Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as publisher and […]

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New Economics Foundation: Russian gas is the least of our energy problems – Our focus should be on using less gas rather than where it comes from

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The amount of raw materials the world has is limited. The amount of CO2 the atmosphere can tolerate is limited. The answer is to reduce consumption. It is that simple. By David Powell, New Economics […]

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Tax Justice Network – Taxcast for March

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this month’s Taxcast: They say history is written by the victors. So how can we rethink the way we use words about tax havens that reflect the reality of what’s really happening? We talk […]

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Ashoka Mody: The euro area’s deepening political divide

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

An excellent analysis of what is currently going wrong in the Eurozone – about which the Euro-elite is in denial. Reality is however catching up with them as Ashoka Mody explains. Read here  

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Yanis Varoufakis – SHAKING THE SUPERFLUX: Shakespeare, economics, and the possibility of justice

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is Yanis Varoufakis’ talk held at the 6th Annual Shakespeare Rose Lecture, 19th March 2018, Rose Theatre, Kingston  It is a long, but entertaining and enlightening. A good read for the weekend. Since brevity […]

EU politics

Chris Dillow: “The country”

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Who is the nation? Chris Dillow, as so often, opens a door that we walk past every day and never ask what is behind it. Read here  

EU politics

Latvia to phase out shell company accounts in banking sector

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

IWe are curious how the EU reacts to this, as it violates one of the EU’s Four Freedoms: The free movement of capital. Read here  

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The Guardian: Thousands of public sector workers go on strike across France

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Train drivers, teachers, nurses and air traffic controllers take to the streets to protest against Emmanuel Macron’s reforms Read here  

Finance

Tax Justice Network – New report: German-African research linking illicit and criminal financial flows with global poverty

March 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

That would be a bleak day for tax havens and financial institutions: “After our research it is obvious that Kenya and Zambia could do without development aid if they were able to tax justly and […]

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Jennifer Cobbe – The problem isn’t just Cambridge Analytica or Facebook – it’s “surveillance capitalism”

March 21, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We’ve ended up with an internet built not for us – but for corporations, political parties, and the state’s increasingly nebulous ‘security’ demands. We need to better understand this problem so that we can challenge […]

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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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