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EU’s V-Recovery Barrels On (Downwards): Total labour market slack up to 14%

October 9, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU seasonally adjusted employment rate for people aged 20-64 stood at 72.0%, down by 1.0pp from73.0% in the first quarter 2020.This has been the sharpest quarter-on-quarter decline since the beginning of the time series […]

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Bill Mitchell: US labour market – floundering now despite modest gains

October 9, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Things are not going much better on the other side of the Atlantic. Clearly, the 20.7 million job loss in April has not yet been reversed. Given the loss of payroll jobs in March and […]

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Ben Wray – The Great Barrington Declaration is Capitalist Realism for the Pandemic-Age

October 8, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

At the current rate of growth (7 per cent increase per day), the number of covid infections in Scotland would be at the level of the March peak by the end of October. There are […]

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Nicola Countouris, Valerio De Stefano – Collective-Bargaining Rights for Platform Workers

October 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The pioneering Danish collective agreement on platform-based domestic workers has been vitiated by a misguided ruling by its competition authority. Nicola Countouris is director of research at the European Trade Union Institute, professor of European […]

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Ms Merkels Magnificent V-Recovery – Germany: Production in August 2020: -0,2 % compared to previous month

October 7, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

While German media is hailing their nation’s V-Recovery and the greatest chancellor of all time, the statistics tell a different story. Read here If you are having difficulties accessing the link, use this: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Press/2020/10/PE20_391_421.html

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Patrick Cockburn – The Assange Extradition Case is an Unprecedented Attack on Press Freedom, So Why’s the Media Largely Ignoring It?

October 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The silence of journalists in Britain and the US over the extradition proceedings against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is making them complicit in the criminalisation of newsgathering by the American government. Patrick Cockburn is the author […]

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Nick Shaxson – How GDP Masks the Finance Curse

October 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

As we keep writing, GDP is a tool for deception rather than a true measurement of a society’s well-being and its economy. Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist on the staff of Tax Justice Network. […]

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Almantas Samalavičius – Pandemic Politics and the Lithuanian Elections

October 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The tug of war between Lithuania’s traditional parties broke down definitively in 2016 with the victory of the Farmers and Greens. But their support has declined since as answers to social and environmental problems have […]

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Branko Milanović – On several Marxist Themes in “Capitalism, Alone”: My reply to Romaric Godin’s Review

October 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

There are a number of interesting points in this piece. If you are not familiar with the Branko’s book, “Capitalism, Alone”, here is our review of it. The translations from French are by BRAVE NEW […]

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Paul Brown – Nuclear Power Hinders Fight against Climate Change

October 6, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Countries investing in renewables are achieving carbon reductions far faster than those which opt to back nuclear power. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of The Guardian […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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