Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Political Economy Thought and Praxis Post Pandemic
This is the first in a series of talks by Bill Mitchell presented by the Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy headed by Heikki Patomäki
Month: January 2021
Corruption
Toni Strubell, Núria Bassa – EU COVID funds for Spain: will they never learn?
The Next Generation EU programme seems to be doomed by the EU’s endemic corruption, for example Spain. Toni Strubell is a former MP in the Catalan Parliament, journalist, and author of What Catalans Want Núria […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Munchau: Covid Vaccine: EU’s worst policy error
The EU did a Brexit trade deal with the pharma industry: it tried to lock in a perceived short-term price advantage at the expense of everything else. Instead of prioritising the speed and security of […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Ins and Outs
For several years now, a serious effort has been under way in Brussels to learn nothing from Brexit, and the way things are it may well be successful. What could have been learned? Read here
Economics
Michael Roberts – Covid and Fictitious Capital
Real and Fictitious Capital: The COVID stock market euphoria Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog During the year of the COVID, output, investment, and […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – IMF actions in Ecuador expose its venal motivations
The IMF were clearly miffed that their ‘authority’ had been challenged by ordinary citizen movements Read here
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – How Capitalism’s Dogged Defenders and Propagandists Defend It From Criticism
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 […]
Austerity
John Treat – Unions: Confronting the Crisis in Social Democracy and “Just Transition”
In order to be effective in stopping the climate crisis unions will have to build alliances with a wide range of progressive social forces around shared commitments. John Treat is a researcher with Trade Unions […]
Corruption
Enrico Bonadio, Andrea Borghini – Vegan ‘dairy’ products face EU ban from using milk cartons and yoghurt pots – and UK could be next
The days of this look could be numbered. Tada Images Enrico Bonadio, City, University of London and Andrea Borghini, University of Milan Leading oat milk brand Oatly and the owner of Flora margarine are spearheading […]
Climate Crisis
Richard Murphy – Why Green QE and MMT can co-exist
How Green QE, which is an idea that Richard co-created with Colin Hines a decade ago, can address some of the key problems within QE.