Climate Crisis
ACEA: Passenger car registrations: -21.7% first two months of 2021; -19.3% in February
No one seems to see this as the chance it is Read here
Month: March 2021
Finance
GMB Union – Uber agrees to classify UK 70,000 drivers as workers with benefits
Uber has announced that from tomorrow, all 70,000 drivers will be paid holiday time, be automatically enrolled into a pension plan and will earn at least the minimum wage. But the full Supreme Court decision […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – The Cormann Conundrum: Is the new OECD Secretary-General a friend or a foe of environmental action?
Mathias Corman with an atrocious climate change record seemed the worst possible candidate as leader of the OECD. Now he has been appointed to the position. Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for […]
Climate Crisis
Claudia Kemfert – Germany does not need any new natural gas infrastructure
Germany does not need Nordstream II or LNG. In fact it cannot reach its climate targets if it does not phase out natural gas by 2038 Claudia Kemfert is an economics expert in the areas […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Uber U-turns, classifying UK drivers as workers
Uber change in policy is a first and could have international shock waves, but the company still fell short of full compliance with the UK Supreme Court ruling last month. The Gig Economy Project, led […]
EU politics
Roger Steer – Covid 19: Shattering the illusions of effective governance
It seems that a day doesn’t go by where the EU political class does not increasingly demonstrate its inability to deal with the COVID crisis. Roger Steer is a Management Consultant working in the Healthcare […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – European Union is destroying the future for its citizens
One of the problems of neoliberalism is that it is anti-people. Read here
Economics
Branko Milanović – Income Inequality, Part 2: Ricardo and Marx
This is the second video of a two-part lecture in which the Stone Center’s Branko Milanovic discusses writings on inequality by François Quesnay, Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and Karl Marx and how their work can […]
Austerity
Aufhebunga Bunga: Juche in North Britain? with Cat Boyd & David Jamieson
David Jamieson and Cat Boyd, writers and hosts of Conter, the Scottish anti-capitalist website and podcast, join us to to talk about the prospects for Scottish independence in advance of the Scottish parliamentary elections in […]
Austerity
MMT Podcast: Bill Mitchell, Pavlina Tcherneva & Modern Money Australia: MMT And The New Social Contract
MMT co-founder Bill Mitchell and Job Guarantee expert Pavlina Tcherneva talk with the team at Modern Money Australia about lessons learned from the Covid crisis and a new way forward. Listen here