On 1 April in Berlin in our series of talks entitled “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” Branko Milanović discussed the evolution in global income inequality and its political implications; in particular, the rise of the middle class in Asia, income stagnation of the rich countries’ middle classes, with special emphasis on the current European situation, migration as part of globalization, and the emergence of global plutocracy (global top 1 percent).
Climate Crisis
Pavlina R. Tcherneva: The Case for a Job Guarantee (English und Deutsch)
Monday, March 8, 2021, Berlin Online-discussion by Helle Panke, Brave New Europe and Rosa-Luxemburg-Foundation with: Pavlina R. Tcherneva and Mathew D. Rose One of the most enduring ideas in economics is that unemployment is both […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Can the price mechanism fix everything?
On the Why Curve podcast last week, Phil (and Roger Hearing) spoke to Daniel Gros, Director of the Centre for European Policy Studies, who argued that the gas crisis in Europe will be largely resolved […]
EU politics
Slavoj Žižek, Yanis Varoufakis – Public Use of Reason
Once you get past the first part about the Greek crisis it really does pick up.
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