Monopolisation, profit without purpose and social corrosion are not accidents – they are inherent, and ever more pronounced, factors of the system itself.
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Economics
Brendan Maton – Branko Milanovic: Inequality in a meritocratic capitalist world
The recent university scandal in the USA is just another example of how the rich can secure their children success, although there may be little talent behind this. Read here
Corruption
ICIJ: Seven EU Countries Labeled ‘Tax Havens’ in Parliament Report
A committee of the European Parliament has found that seven of the European Union’s own member states — including Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — behave like tax havens. Read here
Energy
DIW: Ten years after Fukushima: Nuclear energy is still dangerous and unreliable
• Analysis of global nuclear power developments, especially since the Fukushima major accident • Since the beginning of the commercial use of nuclear power in the 1950s major incidents have repeatedly occurred • Report investigates […]
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