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Month: April 2022

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Economics

Branko Milanović – The novelty of technologically regressive import substitution

April 30, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

What could the future Russian economic development look like? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest  book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” Cross-posted […]

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Fadhel Kaboub – No, MMT Didn’t Wreck Sri Lanka

April 30, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Last week, Bloomberg touted an opinion piece claiming that “Sri Lanka was the first country in the world to try MMT” and that “the experiment has brought the country to ruin.” Fadhel Kaboub is an Associate […]

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Sky News: Half of France’s nuclear reactors taken offline, adding to electricity demand on European grid

April 30, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

So much for the reliability of nuclear powerplants. Half of France’s nuclear power plants are currently out of action, energy supplier Electricité de France (EDF) has confirmed. Read Here Photo: Gralo licensed under the Creative […]

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Is EU heading towards a recession?

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

GDP up by only 0.2% in the euro area and by 0.4% in the EU in the first quater of 2022 Read Here  

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Wolfgang Streeck – Engels’s Second Theory: Technology, Warfare and the Growth of the State

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Friedrich Engels famously spent his working life in the shadow of Karl Marx, a position he now occupies for posterity, and one in which he willingly placed himself. Born in 1820 in the Rhineland town […]

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Bill McGuire – It doesn’t have to be like this

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Capitalism is failing the planet and most of the people living thereon. We will never tackle the climate emergency until it is replaced with a saner and kinder way of living. Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus […]

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Craig Murray – Donziger: A Tale For Our Times

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Another long but brilliant weekend read by Craig Murray Craig  Murray is a British former diplomat, political activist, human rights campaigner, blogger, and whistleblower Cross-posted from Craig’s website Texaco operations in Ecuador from 1962 to […]

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Economics

Farwa Sial – Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our Chaotic World: Q&A with Rupert Russel

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

What made the 2010s commodity markets so tumultuous? Farwa Sial is a Research Fellow at the University of Manchester in the UK Cross-posted from the Developing Economics blog In Price Wars: How the Commodities Markets Made Our […]

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ING Think: French GDP stagnates in 1Q, hit by household consumption

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This could well be just the beginning. Next Germany in recession? Read Here Photo: Nick Thweatt licensed under the Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

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ICCT – Hybrids in Germany: Within the EU’s CO2 standards, the subsidy does more harm than good for the climate

April 29, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Effective climate policy requires a realistic assessment of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Otherwise, policy measures may result in little climate benefit despite high costs. In the worst case, as with the purchase premiums for plug-in […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

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Book Review by Roger Steer In January 2021 Brave New Europe published “The Americanisation of European Healthcare” which was my attempt to describe the forces at work to change the way healthcare is delivered in […]

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Do You Want to Know the Truth? by Rupert Read

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Book Review by Alison Teal Honesty is the key word for Rupert Read’s new book Do You Want to Know the Truth? Rarely is this book what one would consider ‘light’ reading. Collecting some of […]

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