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Economics

VoxEU – The missing profits of nations

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Between 1985 and 2018, the global average statutory corporate tax rate fell by more than half. This column uses new macroeconomic data to argue that profit shifting is a key driver of this decline. Close […]

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Deregulation

Miriam Stewart – Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as  people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our […]

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EU politics

Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here

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Steve Keen – A Crash in Two Years

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Few people saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. Steve Keen was one of them. He is a ferocious critic of the neoclassical school of economics, which continues to dictate thinking within governments, universities and the […]

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Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]

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Austerity

Forbes: Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Heard this sort of thing before? Public libraries became an important element of the Commons and democracy. They too are to become commodities. See where that ends (click here) This article was such a bloody […]

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Corruption

This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]

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Finance

Chris Dillow: Anti-communism as bad faith

July 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Anti-communism was and still is a very comfortable part of a defence of inequality in the west. Read here

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EU politics

Branko Milanovic – Habermas and pimps: the world of the day and the world of the night

July 22, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The problem that Milanovic recognises is the loss of a sense of community. One group seeks to attack the other, excluding them from the community. There are those who seek to identify themselves as the […]

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EU politics

Christopher Bickerton and Lee Jones – The EU’s Democratic Deficit: Why Brexit is Essential for Restoring Popular Sovereignty

July 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Following the Brexit referendum it has been very convenient for the British left to portray the Leave voters as reactionary, misogynist, racists. On their side of the barricade the leftists stood with the great and […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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