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Climate Crisis

Change! Why We Need a Radical Turnaround by Graeme Maxton

August 7, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Hauke Benner Over 180 pages, Graeme Maxton criticises governments, corporations and entrepreneurs, especially in rich countries, for complete failure in the face of the threat of climate collapse and calls for “a […]

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Finance

Jason Hickel – A Response to Noah Smith About Global Poverty

August 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Like most articles in mainstream media there is no intention to analyse problems, but instead to distort and obfuscate serious discussion. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He […]

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Economics

Yanis Varoufakis – Capitalism in Crisis

August 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

What comes next? Yanis Varoufakis has some good ideas By the way, this is followed by Yanis’s first speech in Greece since MeRA25’s entry into Greece’s Parliament. Also interesting.

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Christine Corlet Walker – Green Growth is Trusted to Fix Climate Change – Here’s the Problem with That

August 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

‘Greening’ our current economic system can only take us so far. GTS/Shutterstock Christine Corlet Walker, University of Surrey You may have missed it, but a recent report declared that the main strategy of world leaders […]

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Economics

The MMT Podcast – Ellis Winningham: Challenging Orthodoxy (part 2)

August 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Economist Ellis Winningham talks to Patricia and Christian about the NHS, the Job Guarantee, capital flight, speculation – and also straightens out some of the common misunderstandings people can come to on the way to […]

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Climate Crisis

Politico: Trucking hell in Tyrol

August 6, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Austria’s effort to cut down on truck traffic collides with the EU’s principle of freedom of movement. Read here

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Climate Crisis

Charles Adams – I Am Greta Thunberg

August 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

When arguments and facts run out, you can always count on mainstream media to resort to distraction by personalising an issue. We have seen this with Jeremy Corbyn, who is simply a representative of socialism […]

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Climate Crisis

David Barmes – Reflections on the State of Green Finance

August 5, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Another example of why capitalism is not capable of dealing with the Climate Catastrophe, nor offer any real solutions. David Barmes is carrying out Positive Money’s latest research on Escaping Growth Dependency Cross-posted from Positive […]

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Economics

Heiner Flassbeck – The Great Paradox: Liberalism Destroys the Market Economy – Part 3

August 4, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Capitalism is celebrated by the liberals as a success story. But this success can only be seen in the USA – and, even then, only for reasons that are incompatible with the liberals’ own ideology. […]

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Counterpunch: Victor Lasa – This is How Spanish Social-Democracy Ends

August 3, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Social Democrats have always been the victims of their own opportunism. We are seeing the party disappearing in Europe. In many nations, as in Germany, they are a zombie party. Often they receive a second […]

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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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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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