Economics
Bloomberg: MMT Has Been Around for Decades. Here’s Why It Just Caught Fire
U.S. budget already deep in the red, and markets have shrugged Trump, Ocasio-Cortez and Japan also offer support for MMT case Read here
Month: March 2019
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Frances Coppola – Financial Hurricanes
This is a talk by Frances Coppola in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin on 13 February 2019. Begins at 1:05
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel: Corporate Media Attacks on Corbyn & AOC Resemble State of Permanent Coup!
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
Austerity
France 24: French Yellow Vest protesters hold 17th weekend of marches
Protesters from France’s yellow vest movement marched Saturday for a 17th straight weekend in Paris and other cities to maintain pressure on the government to reverse policies they see as favoring the rich. Read here
Economics
Cahal Moran – Top Marx for Pluralism
According to Marxist theory, the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (TRPF) leads to recurrent crises under capitalism. It’s a helpful device for framing the history of modern capitalism, from the profitability crisis of the 1970s […]
Austerity
Jean-Luc Mélenchon – Europe must abandon these foolish Brussels treaties
Emmanuel Macron’s vision of the continent’s future fails to address the most urgent problems facing Europeans today Read here
EU politics
Chris Bambery – In Spain Democracy has become a major Crime
We have pointed out that the trial against 12 Catalan leaders for “Rebellion” has become a political show-trial. Chris Bambery was so kind to write a report of the trial proceedings from the past week […]
EU politics
Solveig Richter and Natasha Wunsch – How EU conditionality entrenches state capture in the Western Balkans
The EU enlargement process in the Western Balkans has fallen short of reproducing the transformative impact it had in Central and Eastern Europe. Solveig Richter and Natasha Wunsch point to state capture as the core […]
EU politics
Reuters – Spain: Former Catalan leader Puigdemont to run in European election
Former Catalan president Carles Puigdemont, living in self-imposed exile in Belgium, will run in the May 26 European Parliament elections as the leading candidate of Junts per Catalunya (JxCat), his political party said on Sunday. […]
Media
Nervous States: How feeling took over the world by William Davies
Book Review by David Shirreff Perhaps this book should be called The Theory of Everything, though that title has already been used for a movie about Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist and expert on black […]