Economics
Steve Keen – Can we avoid another financial crisis?
This covers a very wide range of topics.
Month: June 2018
EU politics
Manès Weisskircher – Austria’s right-wing government at six months: What’s the record so far?
Austria’s government was sworn in six months ago on 18 December. Manès Weisskircher discusses the domestic record of the new government, noting that so far, its support has remained stable. The government’s biggest domestic hurdle […]
Climate Crisis
Derrick Jensen: Forget Shorter Showers
“…don’t pretend that not buying much (or not driving much, or not having kids) is a powerful political act, or that it’s deeply revolutionary. It’s not. Personal change doesn’t equal social change.” We have waited […]
Economics
Abby Innes: Why public sector outsourcing is less efficient than Soviet central planning
Since the 1990s, public sector outsourcing has evolved through competitive tendering, partnership working (particularly via Public Finance Initiatives), strategic-commissioning and prime-contracting. Each of these iterations has promised better public goods and services for less cost. […]
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: European-wide unemployment insurance proposals – more bunk!
As European neo-liberal enforcers go into meltdown (political zombies like Renzi and Rajoy are gone, Merkel and May will follow) the European political class has a new strategy: ever bigger lies. In this blog Bill Mitchell […]
Economics
Stewart Lansley, Duncan McCann, and Steve Schifferes: Remodelling capitalism – how social wealth funds could transform Britain
For much of the 20th century there was a general trend towards greater wealth equality. That is now set in reverse, with wealth much more unequally distributed than incomes. How we can solve his crisis […]
EU politics
Costas Lapavitsas: Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour vs. the Single Market
If the next Labour government is to be truly transformative, it has to free itself from the constraints of the single market. Read here
Economics
Lars P. Syll – How to be a great economist
There is a great deal of movement around the world in search of change, in many areas. One of these is among economics students. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education […]
Economics
Quartz: How tax havens turn economic statistics into nonsense
A short, but interesting article that demonstrates why statistics can be completely useless (something we saw with Ireland’s GDP – Leprechaun Economics click here). Read here
EU politics
Catalan News: Speaker takes judges to court for ‘violating rights’ of jailed MPs
Charges filed against Spain’s Supreme Court Judge Pablo Llarena and three other magistrates Read here