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Michael Roberts – Are there still People’s Sports?

April 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Are sports simply a commodity and we are the paying consumers? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog The collapse of the attempt to form […]

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Dean Baker – A Two-Year Shortage of Semi-Conductors Is Not a Supply Chain Problem

April 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

While stock prices keep soaring the real economy seems to go from one mishap to the other Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the […]

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Bill Mitchell – The Brexit predictions of doom are proving to be wildly inaccurate

April 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The predictions by so many economcist about a post-Brexit disaster for Britain have up to now not proven to be true Read here

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Eurostat: Government debt up to 98.0% of GDP in euro zone

April 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Weren’t we supposed to be bankrupt at over 60%? Read here  

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Wolfgang Streeck – The Missing Chair and the Missing Democrat

April 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Sofagate” or how EU presidencies legitimise Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s regime. Wolfgang Streeck is the Emeritus Director of Director the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany Cross-posted from El Salto (in […]

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Richard D. Wolff – Increasing Desperation as the U.S. Capitalist System Declines

April 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Is the Biden government just another attempt to stop the great capitalist train crash? Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]

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Gig Economy Project – Is sub-contracting becoming the new normal in the platform economy?

April 22, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Gig Economy Project co-ordinator Ben Wray finds evidence across Europe that sub-contracting is digital platforms’ plan B to continue reaping the rewards of low-paid, precarious labour. The Gig Economy Project, led by Ben Wray, was […]

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Economics

Vladimir Bogoeski – Germany: Harvesting injustice

April 21, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

How the legacy of neoliberal labour market regulation helps exclude seasonal migrant workers from social security in Germany Vladimir Bogoeski is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam and an associate researcher at the […]

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Bill Mitchell: Dr Die Schwarze Null still not thinking beyond more austerity

April 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wolfgang Schäuble is the person who personified the so-called ‘die schwarze null’ (Black Zero) while finance Minister. His conduct as finance minister was an instrumental element in extending the GFC across the Eurozone. He is […]

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The Counterbalance – The European System of Monopoly

April 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

An interview with Tommaso Valletti, who served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from 2016 until 2019.  He tells us how, after moving from academic life to policy and being confronted with questions […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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