Corruption
Corporate Europe Observatory – From Facebook friends to lobby consultants
EU revolving door rules not fit for purpose Read here
Month: October 2020
Aviation
Cardiff University – Climate Scientists Fly more than other Researchers
A lot of flying by academics simply has to do with a sense of entitlement, but isn’t that true of most people who fly? Time for a rethink. Cross-posted from Phys Org The large, international […]
Climate Crisis
Alexandru Gociu, Suryapratim Roy – Norway’s Supreme Court set to rule on whether the Country can Keep Searching for New Arctic Oil
V. Belov / shutterstock Alexandru Gociu, Trinity College Dublin and Suryapratim Roy, Trinity College Dublin Almost all of Norway’s electricity comes from hydropower and its domestic emissions are relatively low, meaning the country is often […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – COVID and the Trade-Off
It is still early days, but Michael Roberts examines what can be concluded about the pandemic in the past six months. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger […]
EU politics
William McGowan – If We Dupe Them, They Will Come: How Covid-19 has Shone a Spotlight on Higher Education Marketisation
Marketisation of higher education in Britain: Many UK university students were cajoled into going to university including expensive tuition and housing costs (both benefiting the university) with the promise of face to face teaching. In […]
Climate Crisis
Greenpeace – EU Parliament Signs Death Sentence for Small Farms and Nature
The EU’s Brown Deal is becoming increasingly visible. Still people refuse to accept the fact that the corrupt EU political class serves international corporations, not its citizens. Read here
Economics
Juan Laborda – How to Manage the Financial Crisis
Contrary to what some may claim, it is the deterioration of public health, as a result of their negligence, that ended up sinking the Spanish economy Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University of […]
Economics
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Bojan Bugarič – How populism emerged from the shadow of neoliberalism in Central and Eastern Europe
Hungary and Poland have pursued a notably ‘populist’ approach to the economy in recent years, which has begun to spread to other countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Mitchell A. Orenstein and Bojan Bugarič argue […]
Economics
Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan, Kuba Dziedzicki – The Loud Echo of Post-Socialist Economic “Transition” amidst the Pandemic
The pandemic has resurfaced the need for discussion of evolving development models in the small post-socialist economies. Aleksandr V. Gevorkyan is Henry George Chair in Economics and Associate Professor at the Peter J. Tobin College […]
Economics
Ban this Book! A review of Daniel Markovits’s “The Meritocracy Trap” by Branko Milanović
Daniel Markovits has written in “The Meritocracy Trap” such a frontal assault on the meritocratic system that undergirds and sustains today’s US society that, were the book on a similarly self-sustaining ideological rationale written in […]