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Month: October 2019

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Economics

John Weeks – GDP: Origin, Uses, and Abuses

October 28, 2019 MDRose 0

For those of you who feel somewhat overawed by political economics, here is a good introduction, which will be followed by further such articles by John. John Weeks is PEF Council Coordinator, Professor Emeritus, School […]

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Climate Crisis

Mariana Mazzucato – How Industrial Strategy Can Drive a Green New Deal

October 27, 2019 MDRose 0

What a Green industrial policy would look like Mariana Mazzucato  the founder and director of the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. Mariana is also an IPPR Trustee. Cross-posted from IPPR The […]

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Finance

Michael Roberts – The top 1% Own 45% of All Global Personal Wealth; 10% Own 82%; the Bottom 50% Own Less Than 1%

October 27, 2019 MDRose 0

Since 2016 and global inequality has edged downward slightly.  Whereas the top 1% of wealth holders had 50% of the world’s personal wealth in 2016, up from 45% in 2006, that ratio has slipped back […]

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NEWS9: 350,000 separatists rally in Barcelona for release of prisoners

October 26, 2019 MDRose 0

Hundreds of thousands in the restive region of Catalonia have protested in Barcelona on Saturday (local time) against the imprisonment of nine separatist leaders for their roles in an illegal 2017 secession bid. Read here

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Austerity

Branko Milanović – Chile: The Poster Boy of Neo-liberalism Who Fell From Grace

October 26, 2019 MDRose 0

Hayek was enamoured by Pinochet and the neo-liberal regimen he installed in Chile based upon the teachings of Hayek and his allies – and of course of the intervention of the USA. This is something […]

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Economics

Stefano Di Bucchianico – Secular Stagnation: The Limits of Conventional Wisdom

October 26, 2019 MDRose 0

This is a bit academic, but there is some very good information concerning “secular stagnation” and what might be behind the whole discussion. Stefano Di Bucchianico is a visiting professor at the Free University of […]

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Economics

Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”

October 25, 2019 MDRose 0

Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]

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Economics

Ha-Joon Chang – The Language of Power

October 25, 2019 MDRose 0

University of Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang explains why ordinary people can and should learn about economics, and not leave the field to experts speaking in tongues.

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Economics

Macro n Cheese: Bill Mitchell – Trade, Foreign Exchange and Modern Monetary Theory: A Field Guide

October 25, 2019 MDRose 0

Listen here For non-economists to learn essentials such as the balance of payments, currency exchange, and trade between nations, presentation matters. The brilliant Bill Mitchell, as always, distills complex concepts in such a way that […]

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Finance

Prem Sikka: Tax dodging must be an issue in a snap election

October 25, 2019 MDRose 0

Organised tax avoidance by corporations and the rich is costing the UK between £34bn/35bn & £122bn each year. The money that can be used for education, healthcare, security and redistribution. Read here

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls

September 4, 2026 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

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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