With the death of Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission from 1985 to 1995, a chapter in European history has ended. The time has come to take critical stock of this decisive period and to draw lessons for the future, a few months ahead of the European elections of June 2024.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Operationalising core Modern Monetary Theory principles – Part 2
This is the second and final part of this cameo set, which aims to clear up a few major blind spots in peoples’ embrace with Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Read here
Austerity
Chris Dillow: Strategic Impotence
We can call it strategic impotence – using a claim to be unable to do something as means of pursuing one’s advantage or cementing privilege. Read here
Fake News
New York Post: BBC concedes on-air Alan Dershowitz interview after Ghislaine Maxwell verdict didn’t measure up to its editorial standards
This is the same Alan Dershowitz Desmond who lambasted Desmond Tutu as an ‘Anti-Semite’ and ‘Bigot’ shortly after Tutu’s death. So these are the objective analyses mainstream media offers us. Read here
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