EU politics
Bill Mitchell: British legislation must be able to override EU law – that is what independence means
Let us be honest, the EU perpetually breaks rules, laws, and treaties. Bill Mitchell lists many of these. Read here
Month: September 2020
EU politics
Jonathan Hearn – Remembering Hume
“We live in an age in which the relationship between science and morality, between objective empirical knowledge and our moral intuitions, is deeply problematic.” Jonathan Hearn is Professor of Political and Historical Sociology at the […]
Corruption
Branko Milanović – Interview: “Capitalism, Alone”
Interview for “Marianne” as “Capitalism, Alone” is published in French 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” […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – The U.S. Is Borrowing Its Way to Fascism
“Fascism merges private capitalism and the state. Political power then enforces capitalism’s basic rules: the economic dominance of the major shareholders and their top directors and managers.” Do not panic, Wolff is writing about the […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Nobel Prize-Winning Economics of Climate Change is Misleading and Dangerous
John O’Nolan/Unsplash, FAL Steve Keen, UCL While climate scientists warn that climate change could be catastrophic, economists such as 2018 Nobel prize winner William Nordhaus assert that it will be nowhere near as damaging. In […]
Economics
Lance Taylor – America’s Dire Inequality Demands a New Conceptual Framework
In a new book from Cambridge University Press, Lance Taylor reveals that wage repression — far more than monopoly power, offshoring or technological change — is driving rising inequality. Lance Taylor is Arnhold Professor of […]
EU politics
Danny Dorling – Coronavirus: why aren’t Death Rates Rising with Case Numbers?
It is a conundrum. For much of the past two months, many people have been convinced that mortality associated with COVID-19 would rise as the number of people testing positive with the disease increased. But […]
Corruption
Nick Shaxson – Murky Ghana Gold Deal Raises Questions about Jersey
Ghana, gold, secrecy, London, tax havens, Merrill Lynch, JP Morgan — what could possibly go wrong? Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist on the staff of Tax Justice Network. His new book, The Finance Curse, […]
Aviation
Chaitanya Kumar – Use Covid Recovery to get to Net Zero: the Citizens Assembly’s Verdict
Do democratic institutions like the British Citizens Assembly exist in the EU? Chaitanya Kumar is Head of Environment and Green Transition at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the website of the New Economics Foundation […]
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor: Radically transforming the EU economy – and how to finance it
The Covid-19 pandemic has revealed a simple truth: today’s model of globalised, financialised capitalism, teetering on a shaky foundation of vast debts and costly credit, cannot deliver human well-being. In order to reverse the course, […]