EU politics
Thomas Piketty: Can the left unite on Europe?
The problem is that the EU simply is not capable of solving the problems of the union. Read here
Month: September 2020
Climate Crisis
Oxfam – Carbon Emissions of Richest 1 Percent more than double the emissions of the poorest half of humanity
The planet’s fast-shrinking carbon budget should be used to improve conditions of world’s poorest Read the report here The richest one percent of the world’s population are responsible for more than twice as much carbon […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Trade Wars Are Class Wars: Even More than Klein and Pettis Say
On Matthew Klein’s and Michael Pettis’ Book “Trade Wars Are Class Wars” and how to correct today’s egregious inequality. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted […]
Finance
Bama Athreya – Advancing Decent Work in the Platform Economy – 23 September International Conference
Bama Athreya, Economic Inequality Fellow at the Open Society Foundations and producer of The Gig Podcast, introduces an international conference to be held on Wednesday 23 September which will look at international strategies for decent […]
Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – Why we need a Progressive International that must plan for today and for beyond Capitalism
This is an exceptionally long piece, but we feel it is important to document it on our website Our era will be remembered for the triumphant march of a Twin Authoritarianism in whose wake the […]
Climate Crisis
Bloomberg: How ‘Degrowth’ Pushes Climate and Well-Being Over GDP
In recent years, a group of economists, ecologists, and anthropologists has gained attention for trying to overturn a core tenet of economic policy — that growth is good for everyone. Known as the “degrowth” movement, […]
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – We’re losing the bunfight so we must win the battle of ideas
We’re supposed to believe in something that doesn’t exist but not believe something that does. Robin McAlpine is the director of the Scottish think and do tank Common Weal. Cross-posted from Source Keir Starmer, the […]
Economics
The Case for a Job Guarantee by Pavlina R. Tcherneva
Book Review by Carlos García Hernández on the occasion of the publication of the Spanish version of the book by his publishing house Lola Books For the first time, all aspects of a job guarantee […]
Climate Crisis
BRAVE NEW EUROPE is Three!
For three years now we have been building a European economic and political educational forum to tackle topics such as neo-liberalism, climate change, inequality, and the deterioration of democracy in Europe. We and our contributors […]
Finance
Branko Milanović – Inequalities and Covid-19
A short, but cogent piece. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” Cross-posted from Branko’s blog Inequality […]