They point out that Elgin had a permit from the Ottoman occupying forces in Athens to take what he liked from the Acropolis — which, they insist, gave him the right to own and to sell on whatever he removed…..Imagine if the Nazi occupying forces in Paris had granted some gentleman a permit to remove statues from the Louvre. Or if Putin’s men in Mariupol were, today, to grant a visiting antiquities dealer a permit to remove priceless artefacts from a local museum. The very notion that these permits bestow secure property rights over the removed artefacts is an affront to every decent person worldwide.
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck: The political elephant in the china store – and why you can’t or won’t see it
In English there is the beautiful expression of the “elephant in the room”, which is very big, but seemingly not discovered by anyone. People talk about all kinds of things that are in the room, […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Covid trade-off between health and the economy did not exist
Our health systems and labour markets have been pushed into unworkable states by the fiscal cuts, outsourcing, privatisation, casualisation, wage restraint, etc – all pursued in the name of making us all better off and […]
Climate Crisis
DeStatis – Germany: Electricity production in the 1st half of 2022: coal-generated electricity up 17.2% on the same period a year earlier
Well done Bobby “Green Gas” Habeck and the German Greens. Nearly a third of the electricity produced in Germany comes from coal-fired power plants Many hours of sunshine result in considerably more solar electricity Electricity […]
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