Simon Wren-Lewis: Should we worry about temporarily raising government debt?

As we are learning in Europe, the centrist parties do not fight the rise of the right, but tries to co-opt them by means of carrots and sticks. They may well find themselves co-opted, as […]

Former President of the European Council Donald Tusk looks set to become Poland’s Prime Minister after the election, but he may not have the last laugh. In New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’. Read the article HERE.

The European Union’s power sector is a good example of what market fundamentalism has done to electricity networks the world over. With the end of cheap natural gas, retail consumers and businesses are paying the […]