Economics
Anat Admati – Financial Regulation Shouldn’t Be Hard—Here’s What We Need to Make It Work
We can land planes safely at crowded airports, yet we can’t manage to make our financial system safe. Why?
Month: February 2019
Finance
Cory Doctorow: Public records requests reveal the elaborate shell-company secrecy that Google uses when seeking subsidies for data-centers
Google reportedly scored tax breaks using secret shell companies – shell companies provide secrecy and anonymity and are a badge for predator practices. Why do nation states facilitate them? Read here
EU politics
Common Space: MEPs condemn ‘unequal treatment’ as European Parliament blocks Catalan conference but allows far-right Spanish event
The far-right Spanish party Vox will accuse the Catalan independence movement of a “coup d’état” at the European Parliament in March, while an event featuring Catalan President Quim Torra and former president Carles Puigdemont has […]
EU politics
Positive Money EU – ECB profits: Will Greece get its money back?
Not only is Greece being denied the entire refund for the illegitimate ECB profits made out during the crisis, but some countries are now conditioning the next repayment to stricter reforms. By Alessia Del Vasto […]
Economics
Andreas Bieler, Jamie Jordan, Adam David Morton – The euro crisis showed the limits of using market integration and free trade as vehicles for development
The crisis that hit members of the Eurozone a decade ago has often been attributed to design flaws in Europe’s Economic and Monetary Union. Drawing on a new study, Andreas Bieler, Jamie Jordan and Adam […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Utopian science fictions legitimising our current dystopia
The Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages, Oxford University, kindly invited me to deliver the 2019 Taylor Lecture on 12th February 2019. I chose the topic of Realistic Utopias versus Dystopic Realities – my aim being to […]
Climate Change
Simon Wren-Lewis: How to pay for the Green New Deal
In our continuing coverage of the Green New Deal we are presenting an article by Simon Wren-Lewis, an economics professor and advisor of Jeremy Corbyn. There is one especially good passage: “No one in a […]
Economics
Lars P. Syll: What it takes to become a great economist
The master-economist must possess a rare combination of gifts … He must be mathematician, historian, statesman, philosopher—in some degree. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: German growth strategy falters – exposes deep flaws in the EU architecture
Germany has adopted the strategy that it can permanently game its Eurozone partners through its mercantilist approach. Read here
Economics
Renegade Inc – Nick Shaxson: The Finance Curse
Finance good, big finance better and biggest finance best. This subtle mantra has bounced around developed economies for decades and has almost entirely captured politicians, the media and the public. Countries have fallen over themselves […]