EU politics
Bill Mitchell: Europhile reform dreamers wake up – there will be no ‘far-reaching’ reforms
EU reform. There is much talk about it, but it does not happen. Bill Mitchell explains why it will remain so. Read here
Month: March 2018
Economics
LARS P. SYLL: Top 20 heterodox economics books
It is great when someone goes to the trouble of creating a list like this. Read here
Fake News
Renegade Inc- Question Everything
Stine Jensen is a Danish philosopher who lives in the Netherlands, a country and people that are not afraid of big or new ideas. We travelled to meet Jensen to learn about the importance philosophy […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Talk with Positive Money
This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]
Finance
The hunt for Toys R Us’ missing millions: Investigators probe a £580m loan moved to a tax haven just months before the store went bust
As usual, in the end we shall discover that this was “completely legal” and the pension fund will be left with a massive deficit. Read here
Deregulation
Heikki Patomäki – The Finnish University Strike 2018: A New Moment in the Process of Turning Universities into Business Corporations
BRAVE NEW EUROPE would like to thank Heikki for taking the time to write this upon our request. We find it an outstanding analysis, listing the conflicts confronting universities not only Finland, but all over […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Austerity
Ed Rooksby – Notes on the UCU Strike
“There’s a decent chance, it seems to me, that is, that victory for university workers in this dispute would provide a major boost for organized labour generally.” Ed Rooksby teaches politics at Ruskin College in […]
Austerity
Lexit Network – Founding declaration: Austria Self-determined
“Selbstbestimmtes Österreich” (SBÖ, Austria Self-determined) is a new political alliance in Austia. They define four basic lines for their approach on Austrian politics: Democratic, Social, Sovereign, Neutral. The approach is in key points very colse […]
Austerity
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]