EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Taking Back Contol: Brexit and the EU
The opinion of an outsider – but what an outsider – on Brexit and the EU. Listen here
Year: 2019
Finance
counter punch – Guy Standing on Anxiety, Anger and Alienation: an Interview About “The Precariat”
“The primary antagonist of the traditional proletarian was the boss. The primary antagonistic of the precariat is the state. A precariat revolt (hopefully peaceful) will lead to a new distinctive distribution system.” – Guy Standing, […]
Austerity
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – Ending austerity: make tax fairer and more transparent
There will be life after Brexit and it is good to see that there are progressive thinkers who are preparing for this. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson are professors of epidemiology, co-founders of The Equality […]
EU politics
Dutch Review: 7 Things to know about the Dutch election results of 2019
In the 2017 Dutch general election centrists thought they had turned the tide with regard to anti-EU sentiment in the Netherlands. Not anymore. With its neo-liberal policies the EU is still contributing to the rise […]
Finance
James K. Galbraith: Modern Monetary Theory – Is there a better model to explain economics in the Trump era?
MMT is about the way the world actually works. It explains why big deficits do not drive up interest rates or “crowd out” private investment, and why big governments in big countries don’t go bankrupt. […]
Climate Crisis
Ellen Brown – The Secret to Funding a Green New Deal
It is time to comprehend that the Green New Deal will lead us to a solution to climate change – not the free market or financial incentives, which have not worked. Ellen Brown is an […]
Austerity
The Local fr: French plan for army backup in ‘yellow vest’ protests sparks backlash
EU imposed austerity is driving another government to the wall. Macron is literally calling in the cavalry to save himself. The French government’s decision to deploy the army as backup during Saturday’s weekly “yellow vest” […]
Finance
Nick Shaxson: Ten reasons why the Destination Based Cash Flow Tax is a terrible idea
The international tax system for taxing multinational corporations is coming apart at the seams. We are now entering one of the most significant turning points in world tax history. Read here
EU politics
Pavlos Roufos – “Years of Stone: the Greek Crisis and the Eurozone”
Pavlos´s talk in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” organised by OXI, Netzwerk Plurale Ökonomik , and BRAVE NEW EUROPE. Pavlos is the author of the book “A Happy Future is a Thing of […]
Environment
Reuters: Second U.S. jury finds Bayer’s Roundup caused cancer
A U.S. jury on Tuesday found Bayer AG’s glyphosate-based Roundup weed killer caused cancer, a blow to the company eight months after another jury issued a $289 million verdict over similar claims in a different […]