Prolific economic thinker Richard Murphy, preparing for a series of lectures in Glasgow and Edinburgh, at a Commonspace Forum, outlines his latest vision for a Green New Deal, as a global imperative, and incidentally a spur to the Scottish economy. This is a long, well-argued essay…
Corruption
Elisa Braun – EU prosecutors threaten to sue Commission in spending spat
Von Der Leyen cut the budget of the prosecutors which are investigating her for corruption, and now the prosecutors are threatening to sue the European Commission for undermining their capacity to conduct investigations. In ‘Politico’. […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone horror story continues
“The Eurozone is crawling along the growth gutter, mass unemployment is still at grossly elevated levels, poverty rates have risen, local community services are degraded, essential public infrastructure is in a growing state of disrepair, […]
National Politics
Thomas Piketty: Rethinking protectionism
Should we have boycotted the World Cup in Qatar? Probably not. Since we have always accepted to participate in sports competitions with regimes far removed from social and electoral democracy, starting with China (2008 Olympic […]
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