Climate Crisis
City Lab: Why Sweden Wants to Revive Europe’s Night Trains
The Swedish government sees this low-cost, environmentally friendly travel option as key to “becoming the world’s fossil-free welfare country.” Read here
Month: April 2019
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Spain’s GDP: growing and growing and growing?
What looks big is sometimes less big than you think if you look more closely. Spain’s gross domestic product could well be such a pseudo giant. Why it is growing at such an incredible rate […]
EU politics
Oliver Haynes: How the Gilets Jaunes Launched a Movement Against Police Violence
The shocking reports of militarised liberal democracy could well be the beginning of a new phase of EU crisis. It was already preceded by brutal police repression of the Catalan independence referendum, which now seems […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell – The effectiveness and primacy of fiscal policy – Part 2
“This is the second part of a three-part series discussing the political issues that give me confidence in the primacy of fiscal policy over monetary policy.” Read here
EU politics
Vila Web – Spain: Catalan President accused of criminal disobedience for not removing yellow ribbons
Just when you think the Spanish Social Democrats have run out of ideas to repress democracy, they prove us wrong. Read here
Economics
Katie Kedward – Why It’s Time to Abandon the Myth of Central Bank Independence
Monetary policy should serve the interests of people and planet, not free market ideology. Katie Kedward is a Postgraduate student in Ecological Economics Cross-posted from Open Democracy On 23 October 2008, the former Federal Reserve […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The Long Depression: Getting longer but lower
Michael Roberts analyses the world economic develpments of the first quarter of 2019 Michael Roberts – Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog The first three months of […]
Economics
Spencer Veale – Modern Monetary Theory and Positive Money: Shadow Banking
As part of our series of blogs examining the relationship between Modern Monetary Theory and Positive Money’s proposals, this guest post by Spencer Veale examines the shadow banking sector in the context of that relationship. […]