Economics
Geoff Tily: Working families aren’t ‘just about managing’ – they’re in danger of going under
Theresa May has achieved the extraordinary feat of turning UK households into deficit borrowers. Read here
Year: 2018
Economics
George Monbiot: We won’t save the Earth with a better kind of disposable coffee cup
We must challenge the corporations that urge us to live in a throwaway society rather than seeking ‘greener’ ways of maintaining the status quo Read here
Economics
Steve Keen – Tenth Anniversary Lehman Brothers at the European Parliament
Steve Keen explains how economist have still do not grasp what caused the Great Financial Crisis.
EU politics
Yiannis Βaboulias: “Orientalising” Greece in the international press and how we’re missing the coming threat.
This is a pan-European problem, unfortunatley reported in a national perspective. Read here
Economics
Owen Jones: The mood has shifted – now Corbyn really can transform the economy
Encouraging after the political disgrace, which was the “anti-semitism in the Labour Party” is how the British public has reacted – in the polls and its ability to determine the poltical discourse. Being able to […]
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – Is Germany’s finance minister the puppet of Big Finance?
Germany´s social democratic party, the SPD, is in rapid decline. This is the result of it selling laws and contracts to the highest bidder, while grinding its boot into the faces of its traditional working […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – The moral egregiousness of poverty is worse than ever before in history
There is a third approach, however, proposed by Yale philosopher Thomas Pogge. Pogge argues that the morally relevant metric of progress against poverty is neither absolute numbers nor proportions, but rather the extent of global […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka – The state still matters: Why the private sector doesn’t have all the solutions
When the UK private sector has been reluctant to embrace risks, the state has stepped in Read here
Economics
The Guardian: Ten points for a better Britain – Institute for Public Policy Research
These recommendations can be applied for most European nations. Read here
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Ten years after Lehmans, it’s as if we’ve learned nothing from the crash
Claims that the finance sector brings jobs and revenue were exposed as a sham – and the rest of us inherited a legacy of debt Read here