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Bill Mitchell: Tip of the iceberg – the US labour market catastrophe now playing out

April 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The March 2020 US BLS labour market data release reveals a rapidly deteriorating labour market. But as the song goes – You ain’t seen nothing yet! Read here

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Finance

Ben Wray – The Gig Economy Couriers: Operating Precariously at the Connection Points of the Covid-19 Economy

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

BRAVE NEW EUROPE has always considered the Gig Economy one of the most important economic developments of our time. Unfortunately it is totally ignored in mainstream media and by much of academia. The Lipman-Miliband Trust […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – Let’s Get the Reasons for Taxing Wealth Right: then we Might Get What We Want

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Richard’s criticism of an article that was recently posted on BRAVE NEW EUROPE by Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman entitled “A Progressive European Wealth Tax to Fund the European COVID Response” and proposes his […]

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Steve Keen – Coronavirus Brutally Exposes the Fallacies Underlying Neoclassical Economics and Globalisation

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The coronavirus has been the result of excessive human pressure on the biosphere. But its severity is the result of human greed and ignorance. Steve Keen is Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & […]

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James Muldoon – Airbnb has been Rocked by COVID-19. Do we really want to see it Recover?

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s time to consider alternatives to the profit-driven models of platform capitalists. James Muldoon is a lecturer in political science at the University of Exeter Cross-posted from Open Democracy So far 2020 has not been […]

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Mark Blyth: The U.S. Economy Is Uniquely Vulnerable to the Coronavirus

April 5, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why America’s Growth Model Suggests It Has Few Good Options Read here

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Dirk Ehnts – The Eurozone is Fully Committed to Modern Monetary Theory (MMT)

April 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Commission and the European Central Bank have changed the eurozone during the crisis in the way that progressive economists have demanded. National governments can now spend more money without fear of deficits or […]

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Bill Mitchell – EMU Member States should ignore Brussels and do whatever it takes

April 4, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

More and more people are realising that it is beyond reform – and that goes for the EU in general. The Eurozone is just the most advanced expression of the neoliberalism built into the EU […]

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Richard D. Wolff – Capitalism Has Failed in Fighting Coronavirus

April 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

We must not suffer such a dangerous and unnecessary social breakdown again. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in […]

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Roger Manser – Net zero Needs a Ministry of Transition

April 3, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The question is if a special ministry is needed to deal with the climate crisis or simply a competent political class free of corruption? At work an active business journalist/editor, but now retired, and enjoying […]

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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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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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