Finance
Prem Sikka: Billionaires are a threat to democracy
Taxation revenues are the basis of the modern state. Without them, it cannot perform its administrative and redistributive functions. Read here
Month: April 2019
Finance
Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity – Ecological Tax Reform + Functional Finance
In this episode in our Green New Deal series, GISP Research Director Mathew Forstater discuses a proposal to combine ecological tax reform with Functional Finance. Ecological tax reform would use taxes, fines, subsidies, regulations, and […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone horror story continues
“The Eurozone is crawling along the growth gutter, mass unemployment is still at grossly elevated levels, poverty rates have risen, local community services are degraded, essential public infrastructure is in a growing state of disrepair, […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – The Taxcast: The Jersey edition
Welcome to this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey In this special extended edition of the April 2019 Taxcast, broadcast from the tax haven of Jersey:– […]
National Politics
Ben Margulies – Why Europe Should Worry about Thierry Baudet
The Netherlands’ Forum for Democracy (FvD) party, led by Thierry Baudet, has a radical-right populist slant but pitches it in the cultural language of the middle classes. The closer Baudet gets to this target group, […]
Environment
Andrew Pendleton – In the Shadow of Kinder Scout
Nearly ninety years after the Kinder Scout Mass Trespass, half of England’s land remains in the hands of just 1%. It’s time for radical land reform. Andrew Pendleton is the Director of Policy and Advocacy […]
Austerity
Elliot Kett: A New Film about Low Income Rural Britain
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
National Politics
Sean Bell: What can we expect from Spain’s ‘deeply undemocratic’ election?
Predictions for the April 28th Spanish election, after the first televised debate, and an interview with Basque candidate Bel Pozueta: “An important election for those wanting to stand up to the Spanish right wing.” Read […]
Globalisation
Ed Lewis: Millions of Pounds of UK Aid Spent on Profit-making Private Schools. Why?
What do you think the UK government should be spending its international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, […]
Economics
Ben Wray – What Currency? A Question that Sharply Divides Backers of Scottish Independence
Scottish National Party members are due to vote shortly on whether – given success in a future referendum – an independent Scotland would “sterlingise” or create its own currency Ben Wray is CommonSpace editor and […]