Economics
RSA – David Harvey on Marx for the 21st Century
Professor David Harvey, the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx, explains the continued importance of Marx’s analysis and how we can apply it to today’s economy and society.
Year: 2018
EU politics
Oliver Norgrove: Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed
Privatisation in Britain has ended ih high prices, poor service, and the infrastructure in tatters. Yet the Conservative Party still sees it as a great British success. Read here
EU politics
Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery
The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy. Read here
Austerity
Ann Pettifor: A triumph for George Osborne’s austerity plan? Not when our social fabric is in tatters
The ex-chancellor rejoices as his target is finally hit, but austerity has taken a terrible toll Read here
Economics
Steve Keen – Does Modern Monetary Theory make sense?
Steve Keen takes a critical look at Monetary Monetary Theory.
EU politics
Michael Mair – Gaining Momentum, Spreading Out – An Update on the UK’s University Strike
The university strike in UK is growing in strength and public support. In his second report (read the first here) Michael Mair brings us up to date as well as analysing the importance of this […]
Economics
Riccardo Mastini – Eurozone: from neoliberalism to democracy?
The reason for the morphing of the 2008 global financial crisis into a sovereign debt crisis in the Eurozone is to be searched in the neoliberal structure of the euro area. And even if today […]
Fake News
Chris Dillow: Free speech after Mill
Is free speech a remnant of the past? Chris Dillow may be confusing free speech with debate and discussion, but there are a number of interesting thoughts in this article, thus well worth reading. Read […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: Catching up in Africa
Africa has not been terribly important for Germany as it has been for the United States, France, Britain, Portugal – and now China. Germany’s sudden interest in Ghana may be part of the Trump administration’s […]