The richest nations got richer through rising investment in fossil fuels – and the global warming they caused has made the poorest nations measurably poorer.
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Finance
Bloomberg: Uber Created a $6.1 Billion Dutch Weapon to Avoid Paying Taxes
Great job EU! After years of discussion, Uber simply side-steps EU laws. How was this possible? Read here
Deregulation
Richard Matoušek – In Lisbon, Residents Seek a Vote on Banning Airbnb
‘In Lisbon, soaring tourism has turned tens of thousands of apartments into Airbnbs, pushing out ordinary renters. A referendum on banning short-term rentals in residential buildings could change that.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
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