Economics
Reuters: Lira plunges more than 7% as Turkey edges towards free market
Erdogan seems to be responding to his election victory by retreating towards more ‘orthodox’ macroeconomic policies. Read the article HERE.
Month: June 2023
Climate Crisis
Seán Fearon: Degrowth at a crossroads
The Beyond Growth conference was a landmark event for the degrowth movement, but it also highlighted the risks of co-option by the powerful. Seán Fearon is a PhD researcher at Queen’s University Belfast, working in […]
EU politics
Gig Economy Project – Open letter from French unions and worker collectives to EU labour ministers on the ‘French model’ and the Platform Work Directive
Labour ministers of EU member-states are set to finalise their position on the Platform Work Directive, with reports that France – the state must opposed to strong employment rights in the Directive – now holds […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters: Accounting for war – Ukraine’s climate fallout
The war in Ukraine is deepening the climate crisis at time when global greenhouse gas emissions are already running at a record high, according to report by carbon accounting experts who have tallied the overall […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff: The World Economy Is Changing—the People Know, but Their Leaders Don’t
The United States and its future reality Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Troll Wars in Economics
Mainstream economists are professional trolls Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security, UCL Cross-posted from Steve’s website Building a New Economics By this, I don’t mean that mainstream economists […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Buying US Debt Subsidizes Imperialism
When you hold dollars, you lend money to the U.S. government to encircle you militarily, have the money to engage in military confrontation with you, and have the money to threaten you not to do […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – America’s Adam Smith
A review of Glory M. Liu’s “Adam Smith’s America” 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” This […]
EU politics
German Foreign Policy: German Combat Exercises in Southeast Asia
German Bundeswehr expands combat exercises in the Asia-Pacific region – at a time when the USA conducts record maneuvers in Southeast Asia and China seeks to secure military influence. Read HERE
National Politics
Philip Cunliffe: How the elites squandered Brexit
Britain still resembles an EU member state Read HERE