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Economics

Dean Baker – Uber, Lyft, and Lessons on the Market

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

Amazing how the concept of a free market disappears into thin air when it comes to defending monopolies. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from […]

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Gig Economy

Brian Callaci: Uber and Lyft Are Thinking About a Franchise Model. That Won’t Fix the Gig Economy’s Problems

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

The essence of the gig economy is control without responsibility Read here Mario Tama/Getty Images

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Investigate Europe: The truth behind the EU’s National Energy and Climate Plans

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

A litany of evasions, missed deadlines, questionable claims and ignorance…real and feigned. Some member states even openly state that they do not plan to phase out fossil fuel subsidies. Read here

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Reuters: Draft EU methane strategy shies away from binding emissions standards

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

More of the EU’s Green (not really) Deal. Read here

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Bill Mitchell: Tracing the roots of progressive views on the duty to work

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

Part 3 of a series. There are a number of interesting thoughts concerning a very divisive topic. Read here

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Bill Mitchell – US Federal Reserve statement signals a new phase in the paradigm shift in macroeconomics

August 24, 2020 MDRose 0

For macroeconomics, we might think of progress as occurring one crisis at a time Read here

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Finance

Marshall Auerback – Why Courts Across the World Are Ruling That the Gig Economy Is Paving the Road to Serfdom

August 22, 2020 MDRose 0

Companies have consistently sought to deny their workers traditional benefits via labour law loopholes that the courts are rapidly closing. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator This article was produced by Economy for […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – Something Remarkable just Happened this August: How the Pandemic has Sped up the Passage to Post-Capitalism

August 22, 2020 MDRose 0

It is daunting how everyone seems to want to ignore the acute crisis in which we find ourselves Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 party and Professor of […]

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Richard D. Wolff – Socialist or Capitalist—What Is China’s Model, Exactly?

August 21, 2020 MDRose 0

An interesting take not only on China, but the USSR and Europe as well. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]

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Murray Scown, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Brady – EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots – new research

August 21, 2020 MDRose 0

Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Murray Scown, Utrecht University; Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, and Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the European Union’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion […]

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Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, and Doug Nicholls

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Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]

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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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