Economics
Danny Dorling – Inequality – the big picture
An easily understood, entertaining, and brilliant lecture.
Year: 2018
EU politics
George Monbiot: Enough of Carillion culture. Make bosses pay for the carnage they cause
George Monbiot is correct with his analysis, but who is going to change this? The Tories? The LibDems? The EU political elite? This is neo-liberalism and exactly what it is supposed to do. Politicians are […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Talk to Deliveroo couriers. See a dystopia that could be your future
The gig economy via tech platforms have become the epitomy of modern worker exploitation. How workers are fighting back. Read here
Austerity
Ann Pettifor – Is it unreasonable to blame bankers/rentiers for the rise in populism?
According to Pettifor Global bankers and financiers are to blame for the rise of populist and fascist political parties after the Great Financial Crisis and are already leading us to the next financial disaster. Ann […]
EU politics
Milford Edge – Spain’s silent coup
The Catalan crisis has brought to light the problems Spain has had with democracy since the Franco era. What we are discovering is not pretty – and has little to do with the democratic pretensions […]
Economics
Robert Schiller – Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception
Robert Schiller on his most recent book.
EU politics
Heiner Flassbeck: O bella, ciao! bella, ciao! bella, ciao, ciao, ciao!
The stupidity of Northern European nations with regard to debt has hit Italy again and is provoking even more radical “solutions”. When will people ever learn? Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as publisher […]
Corruption
Nick Dearden: Big tech companies are trying to rewrite the rules to get your data
Dearden addresses all destructive march of tech companies through our societies and how they are using politicians to stop us from stopping them. Read here
Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – Post-scandal Facebook: will the EU stop treating the tech giant as a trusted partner?
Following the Cambridge Analytica affair and the massive leak of 87 million people’s data revealed earlier this year, Facebook is facing unprecedented scrutiny of its business model and especially its use of users’ personal data. […]
Climate Crisis
Kai Whiting and Luis Gabriel Carmona – The hidden carbon cost of everyday products
Andrey N Bannov / shutterstock Kai Whiting, Universidade de Lisboa and Luis Gabriel Carmona, Universidade de Lisboa The targets set in the Paris Agreement on climate change are ambitious but necessary. Failure to meet them […]