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Corporate Europe Observatory – First Insights into an EU Vaccination Contract

January 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is much material missing still, but what is visible is not good. Read here

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Economics

They said it couldn’t be done: Government Debt up to 97.3% of GDP in Euro Area

January 21, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Compared with the third quarter of 2019, the government debt to GDP ratio rose in both the euro area (from 85.8% to 97.3%) and the EU (from 79.2% to 89.8%): the increases are due to […]

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EU politics

Robert Tombs – Perry Anderson: A Devastating Indictment of the EU

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The prominent Left-wing intellectual Perry Anderson has just published a comprehensive and crushing indictment of the EU from its beginnings to the present. Robert Tombs provides a summary for those who might balk at reading […]

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Economics

Richard D. Wolff – How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 2

We need to drop the taboo on debating how we ought to organize the workplaces where most adults spend most of their lives. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of […]

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Michael Roberts – Biden’s Four Years

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

A good analysis of the challenges facing the Biden government. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog It’s inauguration day.  There is a new president […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project: From Gig Worker to Union Leader – Interview with Alex Marshall

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Alex Marshall is President of the Independent Workers Union of Great Britain (IWGB) The Gig Economy Project spoke to Alex Marshall, new President of the Independent Workers’ Union of Great Britain (IWGB) and former delivery […]

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Economics

Dean Baker – Trump Crazy and Intellectual Crazy

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 1

At the most basic level, anyone in a policy position is almost always, by definition, on the winning side of the inequality gap. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – There is a post-Covid society to shape, and it is not like the one that existed before we went into this

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

We all seem to have forgotten that before COVID we were, and still are, confronted with an existential climate crisis and an economic recession due to the failures of neo-liberalism (again). Richard Murphy is a […]

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Economics

Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism

January 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here

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Economics

Richard Murphy – What are the problems with QE?

January 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Twelve years ago quantitative easing was considered radical. It was called ‘unconventional’ monetary policy. Actually, it was government just using the power it has to create money at will, which had been pretty much denied until that […]

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EU politics

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

January 9, 2021 0

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 […]

EU politics

The Call of Catalonia by Sue Crampton

December 14, 2020 0

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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