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Branko Milanović – Du passé faisons table rase

August 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Few people are prepared to admit in what disturbing and difficult times we are living. This is not just normality with masks. Branko Milanović looks back at another time where the world  had just left […]

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EU politics

Clemens Hoffmann – Turkey-Greece Conflict in Eastern Mediterranean is less about Gas than Vacuum left by Trump

August 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Turkey’s Oruç Reis vessel has been carrying out seismic work in contested waters. EPA Clemens Hoffmann, University of Stirling The worsening stand-off in the eastern Mediterranean, frequently described as a gas conflict, has been gaining […]

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Economics

Michael Roberts – The Fed in a Hole

August 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Someone eventually had to  eventually confirm that the emperor was not wearing any clothes. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog At the […]

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Diana Ivanova, Richard Wood – Top 1% of EU Households have Carbon Footprints 22 times larger than Climate Targets Allow

August 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Denis Belitsky / shutterstock Diana Ivanova, University of Leeds and Richard Wood, Norwegian University of Science and Technology To keep global warming below 1.5°C, we need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to 2.5 tonnes […]

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Finance

Anthony Forsyth – Australian On-Demand Inquiry Report calls out the Gig Economy’s ‘Entrepreneur’ Myth and Recommends much-needed Reform

August 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The secret seems to be out everywhere: the gig economy is about heightened exploitation, not workers’ flexibility. Anthony Forsyth is Professor in the Graduate School of Business and Law at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia […]

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Steve Keen – Can MMT solve the COVID-19 debt problem?

August 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Governments the world over are spending like crazy to try and steer their economies through the COVID-19 crisis. Whether it’s the fiscal policies of the government or the monetary policies of the central bank, it […]

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Economics

Brad W. Setser – Could Trade Agreements Help Limit Tax Competition?

August 27, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why efforts to limit tax competition should be at the centre of global economic policy cooperation, and about the role of trade agreements Brad W. Setser is the Steven A. Tananbaum senior fellow for international […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – The Economist can Promote MMT and still not call it by its Name

August 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

That even The Economist is at its wits end concerning capitalism is no surprise. Capitalism has ceased to function. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]

Economics

Social Class in Europe: New Inequalities in the Old World by Cédric Hugrée, Etienne Penissat, and Alexis Spire

August 25, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Ben Wray Everyone interested in the politics of Europe should have this on their bookshelf. It is remarkable that it hasn’t been done before now, but Hugrée, Penissat and Spire – three […]

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Common Weal -The Common Home Plan

August 24, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why is it that a small think tank of the Scottish Left is able to do something that no government in the world is capable of: Planning a Green New Deal in detail? Common Weal […]

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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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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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