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Tim Radford – Timber buildings can help to slow global heating

February 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Tomorrow’s town planners could take a leaf from nature’s book with timber buildings. More than a leaf: the whole tree and all the cuttings as well. Tim Radford is a founding editor of Climate News […]

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Aviation

Roger Tyers – People Hate Flight Shame – but not Enough to Quit Flying

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Flygskam, or “flight shame,” has done little to counteract the effects of air travel. Ivan Marc/ Shutterstock Roger Tyers, University of Southampton Despite flying being the single fastest way to grow our individual carbon footprint, […]

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Economics

Jacqueline Best – Security, Economy, and Our Addiction to Neoliberalism

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

An informal piece, but with some interesting insights Jacqueline Best is Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa & SPERI International Advisory Board member Cross-posted from the Website of Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) […]

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Finance

Kelle Howson, Srujana Katta, Funda Ustek-Spilda, Mark Graham – Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter of Good Work’ is Nothing but Fairwashing

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We can’t let companies that profit from undermining labour protections define what ‘good work’ is. The authors work at the University of Oxford’s Fairwork Foundation, which scrutinises working conditions at digital labour platforms. Cross-posted from […]

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Solutions

Intelligent Transport: Mayor announces plans to make Paris 100 per cent cycle friendly by 2024

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Especially interesting are two sentences towards the end of the article: Hidalgo’s plans also include the removal of 72 per cent of on-street car parking spaces to make more room for cyclists. According to a […]

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Economics

Ha-Joon Chang – Economics for People: What Is Wrong With Globalization?

February 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Across the world we’re seeing governments and popular movements come to power that are opposed to globalization. Why? In this third lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang explains the backlash to globalization. […]

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Climate Crisis

George Monbiot – The Unholy Trinity of Ideologies Trashing our Planet

February 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is another form of capitalism possible? And can new social movements like Extinction Rebellion escape the ideologies that pervade our lives? George Monbiot is a British writer known for his environmental and political activism Cross-posted […]

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Economics

Juan Laborda – Watch Out for the Shadow Banks!

February 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Fed interventions intensified at the beginning of December, and may in fact be the seed of an emergency programme to make up for the lack of liquidity among some financial institutions. Juan Laborda teaches Financial […]

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Economics

David Harvey – Totality and Capital

February 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

In this episode, David Harvey tackles the question of the relationship between cultural transformations and economic transformations and the roles technology and the nature play in relationship to our mental conceptions of the world. Listen […]

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EU politics

Simon Wiesenthal Center – Spanish State Prosecutor Claims that Incitement to Hatred Against neo-Nazis can be Considered a Hate-Crime

February 2, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

There seem to be some serious questions among the EU political elite about the justice system in Poland. What we are experiencing in Spain – and now this – seems to ignored. But then a […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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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

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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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