Austerity
Kate Mackenzie, Tim Sahay: Carbon Budget versus Fiscal Budget
Mark Blyth: “The continuing idiocy of the EU’s fiscal rules in an era of underinvestment and climate change. Madness on stilts”. Read HERE
Year: 2023
Economics
Branko Milanović – Athenian dialogues on global income inequality
An interesting fictional dialogue on inequality and convergence 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 article […]
Climate Crisis
Jeffrey D. Sachs – US Politics and the Paris Finance Summit
Even the US plutocrats will realize that it’s better to pay the modest price of fighting poverty and climate change than to face a world that rejects their greed and belligerency. Jeffrey D. Sachs is […]
Economics
Dean Baker – The Myth of the “Free Market”
The idea that the policies of the last four decades were somehow a matter of just leaving things to the market is a grotesque lie that no person remotely familiar with economic policy should be […]
Climate Crisis
Thomas Ferguson – Central Banks, Green Finance, and the Climate Crisis
Covid, war, and high inflation have catalyzed yet another “New World Order. Movements to limit global warming are thus now at a crossroads. Thomas Ferguson is Professor Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Boston Cross-posted from INET […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Adam Smith: free marketeer or moral philosopher?
What Adam Smith wrote, and what he also wrote. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s blog Adam Smith has become the guru of ‘laisser-faire’, free market […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor – A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change
The growing debt crisis in the Global South and the need for forgiveness and system change. Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial […]
Climate Crisis
Nnimmo Bassey – The Struggle for Environmental Justice in Africa
The framework of our civilization is premised on the destruction of the planet Nnimmo Bassey is the director of the ecological think tank, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF), and a member steering committee of […]
Finance
Mark Bou Mansour – Global tax rulemaker under fire after Australia pressured to delay global tax transparency breakthrough
The OECD’s mismanagement of its stewardship over global tax rules Mark Bou Mansour is Communications Coordinator for The Tax Justice Network Cross-posted from Tax Justice Network The Australian government has delayed legislation which would have […]
EU politics
Middle East Eye: Muslim countries condemn Quran burning in Sweden
Morocco recalls ambassador to Stockholm, while Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iraq, and several other governments denounce the provocative act Read HERE