Economics
Bill Mitchell: ECB continues to play a political role making a mockery of its ‘independence’
Bill Mitchell debunks the myth of the technocratic and independent role of the Europen Central Bank. Read here
Year: 2018
Economics
Ashoka Mody: Italy never should have joined the euro, and the ECB can’t rescue it from its next crisis
Mody’s analysis is not new, but cannot be repeated often enough. The Euro was a project that should never have occurred, and was organised by those who had ulterior motives, not the well-being of their […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – The Italian patient: A current economic assessment
Italy is still suffering politically from a completely inappropriate analysis of its economic situation by northern nations. This is because of the general economic ignorance in the North, but also due to specious prejudices against […]
Finance
The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS by Atul K. Shah
A book review by Prabhu Sivabalan In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to […]
Economics
VOX EU: Michael Hudson and Charles Goodhart – Some ways to introduce a modern debt Jubilee
The increasing income and wealth inequalities within countries is one of today’s great social concerns. This column describes how the tendency towards increasing indebtedness in much earlier societies was held in check by debt-cancellation Jubilees, […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik: How Democratic Is the Euro?
“Too often, international economic commitments serve not to fix democratic failures at home, but to privilege corporate or financial interests and undermine domestic social bargains. The European Union’s legitimacy deficit derives from the popular suspicion […]
Economics
Filip Novokmet and Pawel Bukowski: The central Europeans, the bloodsuckers of the European Union?
An interesting analysis of inequality in Eastern European nations. Read here
Economics
Ed Rooksby – On reform, revolution, and socialist strategy
Ed Rooksby joins Politics Theory Other to discuss socialist strategy, Syriza, Nicos Poulantzas’ theory of the state and the Corbyn moment in Britain. Listen here
EU politics
Reuters: Spain’s Basques form 202-km human chain to call for independence vote
It appears democracy is catching up with the Spanish central government in Madrid. First in Catalonia now in the Basque conuntry. Read here
Economics
Richard Murphy – Modern Monetary Theory: economics for an economy focussed on meeting the needs of most people
We have been trying to introduce Modern Monetary Theory to our readers. There is no one who explains it better and clearer than Richard Murphy. It is really not that difficult or esoteric. It is […]