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Carlo Clericetti – Italy and The European Stability Mechanism: “Europe is making us an offer we can’t resist”?

October 31, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 1

In the Italian daily Corriere della Sera, Lucrezia Reichlin, a very authoritative economist, proposes a new version of the “Europe is making us an offer we can’t resist” in which she backs Italy applying for […]

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Wolfgang Streeck – Italian Futurism, or European Castles in the Air

October 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

If EU money is going to be available in a year’s time, how will countries and their economies be saved if the disaster of the first six months of this year is repeated? Wolfgang Streeck […]

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Hauke Benner – The German Greens: The Party of Adaptation

October 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Many believe that the German Greens are a leftist, ecological party. they aren’t. It is a neo-liberal party that prominently parades the remaining tattered remnants of its earlier environmental trappings. Hauke Benner is a former […]

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Michael Roberts – China’s Growth Challenge

October 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since we are all heading for lockdown again, we thought it might be useful to post a few longer pieces to keep you occupied. We may not come out of this as better people, but […]

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Ben Wray – Is Dissent Allowed in Keir Starmer’s Labour or The Intercept?

October 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The “Left” has become as integral a part of neo-liberalism as the rest of the liberal-democratic parties. Joe Biden is often referred to as “left” as are social democrats. How far does the Left have […]

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Bill Mitchell: Inflation is not necessarily due to excessive spending

October 30, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

What a lot of people do not fully grasp. Inflation can be driven by administrative decisions and can be curtailed or restrained by varying those decisions. Read here Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic

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Trade Unions for Energy Democracy – Sweden: A Great Victory Has Been Won over Fossil Capital

October 29, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

On Monday, September 28, 2020, Sweden’s largest oil refinery, Preem, decided to withdraw its application for an expansion of its refinery in Lysekil on the Swedish west coast. Read here

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Jonathan Cook: Social media’s erasure of Palestinians is a grim warning for our future

October 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Facebook, Google and Twitter are not neutral platforms. They control the digital public square to aid the powerful – and can cancel any of us overnight Read here

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Jason Hickel – Degrowth: A Response to Branko Milanovic

October 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Capitalism has put enormous strain on ecological interdependence, bringing us closer to tipping points where the earth’s resilience becomes exhausted and intensifying feedback loops precipitate more and more interrelated crises. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist […]

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Annie Quick – Wellbeing and GDP: Explained

October 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 1

Focusing on wellbeing over economic growth could transform our economy – but it also has some blind spots. Annie Quick led NEF’s work on wellbeing and inequality at the New Economics Foundation for many years. […]

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This Is Not Normal: The Collapse of Liberal Britain by Will Davies

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Book Review by Sean Kippin There is a particular brand of UK media figure. Usually male, they revel in the gossip, intrigue and parlour games of British politics. Policy seems to bore them. Economic policy is […]

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The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

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Book Review by Toni Strubell Sue Crampton’s “The Call of Catalonia”, apart from being a good read, is a book that will be useful to those wondering what the recent kerfuffle was about with the […]

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