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Aviation

Branko Milanović – Climate change, covid, and global inequality

February 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

What measures to stop climate change could we adopt from the COVID lockdown? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – The economics of the real world

February 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Political economy  – warts and all.

Austerity

Heterodox Challenges in Economics by Sergio Cesaratto

February 24, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose I never thought that I would describe an economics book as “a delightful read”, but “Heterodox Challenges in Economics” by Sergio Cesaratto is exactly that. It is well written, […]

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Economics

Jason Hickel – Is the world poor, or unjust?

February 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Our economic system is not designed to meet human needs; it is designed to facilitate capital accumulation.” Jason Hickel is an academic at the University of London and a Fellow of the Royal Society of […]

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EU politics

David Miller – We must resist Israel’s war on British universities

February 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the recent past we have seen one upstanding leftist with a distinguished history of fighting racism, fascism, yes even anti-Semitism being attacked as anti-Semitic, such as Jeremy Corbyn, Ken Loach, and the Jewish poet […]

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EU politics

Julia Rone – Divided by a common purpose: Why do activists in Central and Eastern Europe rarely collaborate with those in the West?

February 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Major protests have occurred in several countries in Central and Eastern Europe in the last few years. Yet as Julia Rone explains, there has been a remarkable lack of coordination between activists in the region […]

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Economics

Richard D. Wolff – USA: A Minimum Wage? A Fake Debate

February 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 1

In 2017 a minimum wage was introduced (!) in Germany. It was only 8.84€ per hour. Leading economists like Hans Werner Sinn, Germany’s chief neo-liberal ideologue, predicted an increase of one million unemployed. Not only […]

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Economics

Eurozone’s unstoppable V-Recovery – Q4: GDP down by 0.6% and employment up by 0.3% in the euro area

February 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the fourth quarter of 2020, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 0.6% in the euro areaand by 0.4% in the EU,compared with the previous quarter, according to a flash estimate published by Eurostat, the statistical […]

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Austerity

Bill Mitchell – The ‘disciplining role of markets’ should be replaced by the disciplining role of democracy

February 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Capital through its lobbying power has also meant that there is now democratic deficits rising all around the world. So, we don’t even get to express our political choices on an even playing field. Read […]

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Vila Web: Police handling in spotlight after seventh night of protests against jailing of rapper Pablo Hasel

February 21, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

How public order is maintained and the role of the Catalan riot police are key to government talks Read here

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Heterodox Challenges in Economics by Sergio Cesaratto

February 24, 2021 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose I never thought that I would describe an economics book as “a delightful read”, but “Heterodox Challenges in Economics” by Sergio Cesaratto is exactly that. It is well written, […]

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Kleptopia: How Dirty Money is Conquering the World by Tom Burgis

January 27, 2021 0

Book Review by David Shirreff First, the good news. This is undoubtedly a useful book. It is a mine of information and anecdote, cleverly told, about the kleptocrats who apparently move untroubled around the world […]

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