EU politics
Bill Mitchell: An evolving 6-point plan for British Labour
Bill Mitchell looks back and into the future with regard to UK progressive politics. Read here
Month: December 2019
Austerity
Thomas Piketty – France: Several universal retirement schemes are possible
Could we possibly have a reasoned debate about the several alternative retirement schemes? To judge from the government’s attitude, one might well doubt it. The current government is endeavouring to restrict the discussion to the […]
EU politics
Chron: French pension reform architect resigns as strikes drag on
French President Emmanuel Macron’s government suffered a major blow Monday when the key architect of the pension overhaul resigned over alleged conflicts of interests, on the 12th day of transport strikes against the planned changes. […]
Economics
Lynn Parramore – Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us. Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute […]
Climate Crisis
Ben Wray – What is the Green New Deal?
cop25 has ended in disaster. Solutions will have to be found somewhere else. Ben Wray assesses the phenomenon of the Green New Deal. where it comes from and what potential it has. Ben Wray is […]
Media
Branko Milanović – Who are we?
We do not normally muck about with other people’s texts, but would like to add this quote from Alexis de Tocqueville (knowing Branko, he will not mind): “Fetters and headsmen were the coarse instruments that […]
Economics
Antonio Lettieri – The Eurozone twenty years later
After its optimistic birth, the Eurozone is now the victim of the lowest economic performance at global level. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight and President of CISS – Center for International Social Studies (Roma). […]
Austerity
France 24: Christmas plans threatened as French strike drags on
The strike continues. Purportedly 54% of the population supports the demands Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Discredited academic dinosaurs continue to seek relevance
As many mainstream macroeconomics try to reinvent themselves after their reputations were trashed during and in the aftermath of the GFC, some are still trying to stay relevant by recycling the usual trash about deficits, […]
EU politics
Jonathan Cook – Corbyn’s Defeat has Slain the Left’s Last Illusion
This is the third analysis of yesterday’s British general election that we are posting. We hope it will assist our readers inside and outside Britain in comprehending yesterday’s UK general election result. See the other […]