Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here
Month: April 2018
Economics
Positive Money: UK consumer credit approaches 2008 peak
We have been here before. To keep the economy too much money has been leant to those who cannot repay their debts. It does not take much imagination to guess what follows. Read here
Economics
Claire Connelly: What the left can learn from Mont Pèlerin
The historian Philip Mirowski says the left lacks a compelling story about how markets work, and for too long has conceived of government and markets as separate entities. Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Inequality and poverty
Here is another case of “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. A constant Gini coefficient (a statistical representation of the income or wealth distribution of a nation’s populace) does not necessarily mean poverty is not increasing, nor […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: My response to a German critic of Modern Monetary Theory – Part 3
This is the last in a series of articles by Bill Mitchell concerning Modern Monetary Theory. Here are Part 1 and Part 2 Read here
Uncategorized
Paul Malgrati – France: Is Macronism Thatcherism?
Today French rail workers launched three months of strikes in what threatens to become the largest industrial action against Emmanuel Macron’s drive to privatise and liberalise the state railway. Last year, during the campaign for […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The Media and Attitudes to Austerity
Why was austerity popular? “Many people would argue that the macroeconomic case for fiscal stimulus was complex, while simple analogies between governments and households were easier to grasp. However I have also argued that the […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik: “Globalization Has Contributed to Tearing Societies Apart”
In an interview with ProMarket, Harvard economist Dani Rodrik explained where globalization went wrong, how trade agreements serve rent-seeking by politically well-connected firms, and why the only solution to the rise of political populism is […]
EU politics
UCU Strikes: A response from Chris Beedham
Chris Beedham explains what the current University Strike in the United Kingdom has come about, what the university employees are demanding, and why. Chris Beedham is a Lecturer at the Department of German, School of […]
Austerity
Shlomo Ben-Ami: The Threat to Western Democracy Starts at Home
Ben-Ami picks up a number of threads an weaves them together skilfully. These are the usual distractions by political elites enforcing neo-liberalism as they notice that they are losing power. We are seeing the same […]