Finance
The Guardian: Gig economy demands raise Uber and Amazon drivers’ risk of crashing
The Gig Economy has little interest in safety or well being of its non-employees and customers, just their share price. Read here
Year: 2018
Economics
Rachel Lurie and Ashoka Mody – Brexit is a consequence of low upward mobility
In the Brexit referendum, UK citizens were pleading through their vote – and non-vote – for a fair shot at the future. Rachel Lurie is an Analyst at the Princeton University Investment Company. She graduated […]
Economics
Grigoris Markou – Is Marxism coming back? The resurgence of the Left in Europe and America
In this weekend’s long-read article, Grigoris Markou surveys the re-emergence of Marxist and Communist ideas in contemporary political discourse. Tracing the relationship between Marxism and Populism, Markou concludes: ‘convergence between populism and Marxism seems to be […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – On the Deep State – an audio essay in seven parts
Is there a Deep State in our western liberal democracies? If so, is it a conspiracy or something more ‘interesting’ than that? These are questions that the Left has been traditionally engaged with, especially when facing […]
EU politics
Ashoka Mody: Italy Needs to Wake Up and Fix Its Banks
The euro area’s most vulnerable economy is heading into a storm. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – The economic battlefront has been drawn: let the battle commence
The EU political elite simply cannot shake off its subservience to financial corporations, as Carl Bildt’s tweet once again proves. Democracy plays no role in his vision for Europe. There will have to eventually be a […]
EU politics
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Between Scylla and Charybdis: How trivialization and complexity are “compressing” representative democracy
“The idea that certain political decisions require high levels of knowledge and technical competency—and thus cannot be left simply to public democratic debate—is problematic for democracies, as it implies delegating public policy framing and decision […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: The post-crash world: how the 2008 crisis led to our current age of extemes
Ten years on, the aftershocks of the crash threaten the very notion of the nation state. Read here
Economics
Matthew Yglesias: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. Read here
EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili and Ken Loach: ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond. Read here