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Camille Landais, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman – A Progressive European Wealth Tax to Fund the European COVID Response

April 3, 2020 MDRose 0

European governments have reacted swiftly to the COVID crisis and are now discussing ways to mutualise the cost of the epidemic. This column proposes the creation of a progressive, time-limited, European-wide progressive wealth tax assessed […]

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Jonathan Cook – The Bigger Picture is Hiding Behind a Virus

April 2, 2020 MDRose 0

Another thought provoking piece by Jonathan Cook. Jonathan Cook is an award-winning British journalist based in Nazareth, Israel, since 2001 Cross-posted from Jonathan’s website Things often look the way they do because someone claiming authority […]

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John Smith – Why Coronavirus could Spark a Capitalist Supernova

April 2, 2020 MDRose 1

There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work. John Smith is author of the prize-winning 2016 book Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, […]

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Carlo Clericetti – Corona Crisis: The Eurobond is not Worth the Fight, the ECB is the Key

April 2, 2020 MDRose 0

Reason and common sense seem to be strangers to the German hegemon and its acolytes. Carlo Clericetti is an Italian journalist. In the past he has directed “Affari & Finanza”, a weekly supplement published by […]

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Freedom News – Greek authorities use COVID-19 lockdown to crack down on self-managed Vio.Me factory

April 2, 2020 MDRose 0

While the Greek people are placed under quarantine due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the Greek authorities continue their agenda against the social movements in the country. The state has found the perfect timing to conduct […]

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Servaas Storm – The EU’s Green Deal: Bismarck’s ‘What Is Possible’ versus Thunberg’s ‘What Is Imperative’ in the Age of Covid-19

April 1, 2020 MDRose 0

What ails the EU Green Deal is exactly what troubles the Union in general — an absence of social democracy at work Servaas Storm is a Dutch economist and author who works on macroeconomics, technological […]

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Ben Wray – The Economics of the Pandemic

April 1, 2020 MDRose 0

There will be no socialism borne automatically out of capitalism’s inability to cope with a pandemic. A new world will have to be fought for, tooth and nail. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading […]

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Colin Haslam – Corporate Financial Resilience in Times of COVID-19: a Perfect Storm?

April 1, 2020 MDRose 0

In our working paper Safeguarding financial resilience for sustainability’ we argue that large companies listed on the European and the US stock exchanges have become financialised, leaving many with weak, financially exposed balance sheets and […]

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Steve Keen – Who is handling this Coronavirus the best?

April 1, 2020 MDRose 0

Italy is getting swamped in corona virus cases, whilst China claims the only new infections now come from visitors from overseas. Donald Trump has gone from calling it a hoax to warning that 200 thousand […]

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David Barmes – The looming danger of a high-carbon monetary response to the coronavirus crisis

April 1, 2020 MDRose 0

Positive Moneys David Barmes argues that renewed QE strategies undermine the Paris Agreement and miss a key opportunity to promote a greener economy Read here

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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