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DW: France hit by more strikes against pension reform

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

From Eiffel Tower operators to hospital doctors, the strikes have drawn French workers from major sectors of the economy. But the French could be losing their appetite for disruption as the holidays draw near. Read […]

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EU politics

Lee Jones – What Corbyn Got Wrong About Brexit

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Credibility is the most important virtue in politics. The European centrist liberal democratic parties did not care about it because they assumed there was no alternative to them. Thus they have converted the EU into […]

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Dean Baker – Trade Deals Are About Increasing Protectionist Barriers

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

A short, but good take on what trade agreements are really about. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from Dean Baker’s Beat The Press Blog […]

Economics

The New Enclosure: The Appropriation of Public Land in Neoliberal Britain by Brett Christophers

December 17, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts I should have reviewed Brett Christophers’ book, The New Enclosure, when it came out this time last year.  But better late than never. In 2017, Christophers, professor in Human Geography […]

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Toni Strubell – The Catalans Face a Crucial Week

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The independence movement in Catalonia is not going to disappear, even if the EU is doing everything to ignore it. Toni Strubell  is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What […]

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Economics

Jacqueline Best – The Return of Economic Exceptionalism

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Governments don’t just invoke exceptions to confront security crises—they also do it to deal with economic crises Jacqueline Best is Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Studies, University […]

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Malta Independent: Malta is a mafia state, claims author

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Isn’t Malta a member of the EU? Read here

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Inside Climate News: Shipping Group Leaps Into Europe’s Top 10 Polluters List

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Until this year, the EU’s top polluters were mostly coal-fired power plants. But shipping is among the few industries not covered by the Paris climate agreement. Read here The MSC Gulsun launched this year as […]

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Economics

Ha-Joon Chang – Five Reasons Why Economics Is Political

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the new series “Economics For People” from the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), University of Cambridge economist and bestselling author Ha-Joon Chang explains key concepts in economics, empowering anyone to hold their government, […]

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Economics

Paul Adler – “The 99 Percent Economy”

December 16, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

This talk presents the main themes from Paul Adler’s forthcoming book “The 99 Percent Economy”.

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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