Economics
Bill Mitchell: Elements in a strategy for the Left
Another long but excellent article by bill Mitchell concerning where the Left in Europe has to go and how it has to change its thinking. Read here
Month: July 2018
Economics
EuroTragedy – A Drama in Nine Acts by Ashoka Mody
Book review by David Shirreff There’s an old proverb: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Ashoka Mody, a former IMF economist, and visiting professor at Princeton, tells the tragic tale of how […]
Austerity
Zoe Konstantopoulou: If you love Greece, help us get rid of Alexis Tsipras and his zombie party
This was a long time coming, but finally this discourse has transceded the Greek borders. Read here
EU politics
El Nacional.Cat – Anwar: “Talking to Spain now is like sitting down with a gangster holding hostages”
“I’ve now become a student of Catalan politics and I have realised that the socialist party is the same side of the coin as Rajoy’s party. One lot are conservatives and the others socialists but […]
Austerity
Sue Konzelmann – When is austerity an appropriate economic policy?
Austerity has an awful reputation, but can be a useful tool in an economy to deal with public debt at the right time and in the correct manner. sue Konzelmann explains. Sue Konzelmann is a […]
Austerity
David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]
EU politics
Biagio Bossone, Marco Cattaneo, Massimo Costa and Stefano Sylos Labini: A parallel currency for Italy is possible
This is a question, which the new Italian government will certainly address. Read here
EU politics
Danny Dorling: Peak inequality
The gap between the very rich and the rest is wider in Britain than in any other large country in Europe, and society is the most unequal it has been since shortly after the First […]
Austerity
John Weeks – EU degenerates: Immiserizing Growth
This article is the second by John Weeks in his series “EU degenerates”. It assesses whether the European Union has achieved its founders’ stated goals of national and regional prosperity, convergence of development level across […]
EU politics
Antonio Lettieri – Migrants and the long night of Europe
Closing itself in a fortress, under the hegemony of the Franco-German axis, Europe is self-condemned to a progressive irrelevance in a world in which migration is a permanent feature of modern history. Antonio Lettieri is a […]