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Month: January 2019

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The Guardian: French police weapons under scrutiny after gilets jaunes injuries

January 30, 2019 MDRose 0

Government facing calls to ban riot police’s use of explosives. What has been going on in France for almost three months is a brutal repression not appropriate for Europe. Why are we seeing this in […]

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Climate Crisis

Richard Black – Nordic forests 1, German coal 0

January 29, 2019 MDRose 0

Richard Black is Director of the Energy 6 Climate Intelligence Unit (ECIU) Cross-posted from the ECIU Blog Separated at their closest by only the breadth of a Schengen Agreement border, remarkably similar in standard of […]

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EU politics

European Court of Auditors: “Juncker Plan” is hot air

January 29, 2019 MDRose 0

It took a long while and probably a lot of taxpayers` money, but the European Court of Auditors came to the conclusion that was publicly known over a year ago: Juncker was lying about the […]

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Austerity

Kevin Farnsworth and Zoë Irving – Austerity politics, global neoliberalism, and the official discourse within the IMF

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

Is austerity a ‘dream come true’ for neoliberals, or did the global financial crisis force policymakers to question neoliberalism’s core principles and change direction? Focusing on speeches by members of the International Monetary Fund, Kevin […]

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EU politics

Positive Money – ECB reshuffle: The EU can do better than gentlemen’s agreements behind closed doors

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

Appointments to the European Central Bank’s Executive Board are no less than a strategic and political decision over the future of the Eurozone. But experience has shown this process is not transparent, open, and democratic […]

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Economics

Randall Wray – Understanding Modern Money

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

Randall Wray presents in English the German version of his book “Understanding Modern Money”. The intro is in German, Randy’s presentation is in English. This is an outstanding talk, expecially as an introduction to Modern […]

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Economics

Michael Roberts: Modern Monetary Theory – Part 1: Chartalism and Marx

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has been covering Modern Monetary Theory. Here an analysis from a Marxist standpoint. By the way,  there is an interesting Modern Monetary Conference in Berlin on 1 and 2 February: see here […]

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Corruption

ITUC: “E-commerce” push at WTO threatens to undermine labour standards

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

The ITUC has warned that new trade rules currently being tabled would place severe restrictions on governments’ ability to regulate in the interests of working people. The proposals, which come under the banner of the […]

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Economics

Bill Mitchell – British labour market – rise in self-employment driving growth

January 28, 2019 MDRose 0

“The proportion of self-employed who are working part-time has risen from 17.6 per cent in the June-quarter 1992 to 30.1 per cent in the November-quarter 2018.” This is something that could well be relevant for […]

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Deregulation

Jason Hickel – The scandal of foreign aid

January 27, 2019 MDRose 0

If we look at the data, it becomes clear that poor countries are developing rich countries, not the other way around Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

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Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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