Economics
Michael Roberts: Keynes part 2 – internationalist or nationalist?
Was Keynes the great internationalist who aimed to make capitalism a stable system through macro management on a world scale? Read here
Year: 2018
Economics
Aditya Chakrabortty: Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
Who says that trickle down does not work?. For almost two years progressive economist have been hammering away that although governments have debts, they also have assets. Translated, you may have a mortgage of 100,000 […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Denmark in the hands of the capital markets?
Ten years after the global crisis, the financial markets are again being glorified as if nothing had happened. Countries are threatened by capital markets, which will make financing public debt more expensive if their governments […]
EU politics
Caroline Lucas – We have the answers to Brexit’s causes
This process should have begun on March 30, 2017. Only now is some of the left questioning why a majority of Britons voted for Brexit, beside the fact that they are stupid, racist, and manipulated […]
EU politics
Catalan News: One year on, pro-independence activists remain in pre-trial jail
Jordi Sànchez and Jordi Cuixart were the first of nine Catalan leaders to be sent to prison by Spanish courts Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: The misplace Rumsfeld assumption
When she was told yesterday that some Universal Credit victims were being driven into prostitution, Esther McVey replied: Tell these ladies that now we’ve got record job vacancies – 830,000 and perhaps there are other […]
EU politics
Common Space: New report urges focus on causes of Brexit in ‘dysfunctional’ Britain
Leftwing thinktank warns that unaddressed problems of regional under-development, economic inequality and political alienation will create more crises like Brexit Read here
Deregulation
Jeremy Smith – The slowing economy of the Single Market and NAFTA era
This may not be the simplest of reads, but the analyses is fascinating regarding international trade agreements: “In assessing the impact of the Single Market and NAFTA on the 10 countries looked at, we can […]
EU politics
Jason Hickel – The case for reparations
Yesterday I stood in the hall of the Durham Union to argue for the proposition: “This house believes Britain owes reparations to its former colonies”. The following is the text of my ten-minute speech, followed […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: On Europe’s austerity drive and DiEM25 – an OECD podcast
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]