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Climate Crisis

Colin Hines: Bail out society and the planet, not just the banks

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

If the trillions spent on QE so far had gone towards the energy transition, we would be on our way to a zero-carbon world Colin Hines is a member of the Green New Deal Group. […]

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EU politics

BBC – Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell arrested in SNP finance probe

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

The murky world of SNP finances, where money is collected from the general public on the basis it will be spent specifically on a new independence campaign, and then is allegedly used on routine SNP […]

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Solutions

Dylan Riley: Drowning in deposits

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

Interesting polemic in New Left Review’s ‘Sidecar’ against the Green New Deal and for the socialisation of finance. Read the article HERE.

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Finance

Clément Le Ludec, Maxime Cornet: How low-paid workers in Madagascar power French tech’s AI ambitions

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

A case study in neo-colonial economic relationships: Madagascan workers get paid a pittance to make French ‘artificial intelligence’ intelligent Clément Le Ludec is in the sociology of digital technology department at Télécom Paris – Institut […]

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Finance

Christopher Leach – Worker resistance and the gig economy: lessons from the Sheffield courier strike

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

For eight months, platform workers in Sheffield organised the longest strike in the history of the gig economy. History and Politics student Christopher Leach spoke to striking platform workers as part of a Sheffield Undergraduate […]

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Economics

Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie: QE and the bond bubble

April 5, 2023 Ben 0

Silicon Valley Bank collapsed last month because there was a run on the bank and they didn’t have the assets to cover their customers deposits. They were trading insolvent, in other words, even though they […]

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – Organising from the bottom-up: Inside Brussels’ House of Couriers

April 2, 2023 Ben 0

The House of Couriers opened in December to aid rider-organising in the Belgian capital. The Gig Economy Project went to the House of Couriers to speak to two of its main organisers to find out […]

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EU politics

Jacobin: How Russia’s war broke the backbone of the European left

March 29, 2023 Ben 0

Interesting interview with author of new book ‘This war does not end in Ukraine’. Read the article HERE.

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EU politics

Chris Bambery: Sleepwalking to war in 2023

March 29, 2023 Ben 0

As the US builds up its military prowess in the South China Sea, it wouldn’t take much for a ‘Sarajevo’ moment to occur Chris Bambery is a Writer, broadcaster, journalist and author of A People’s […]

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Economics

Cédric Durand: Crisis in slow motion?

March 29, 2023 Ben 0

Durand writes in Sidecar about the meaning of the latest crisis of global finance. Read the article HERE.

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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