Blogger The General Theorist wonders whether Christine Lagarde’s patchy performance as managing director of the IMF qualifies her for the trickier role of president of the European Central Bank. “The assumption that Lagarde is a like-for-like replacement of Mario Draghi is a huge misreading of her track-record.”
Economics
Ann Pettifor: The indefatigable efforts of J. M. Keynes
Ann Pettifor argues that a failure to recognize the economist’s work guarantees further crises Read here
EU politics
Al Jazeera: Turkey’s Erdogan defies pressure over Sweden’s NATO application
Erdogan continues to play hardball even after his election victory. Read the article HERE.
Climate Crisis
Dani Rodrik: Globalisation after Covid-19 – my plans for a rewired planet
The virus confirms that the world needs rules for living together—but not the arbitrary rules we’ve got. For the good of the economy as much as anything else, the focus must shift from investment and […]
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