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Economics

Christine de La Maisonneuve, Balázs Égert, Dave Turner – Quantifying the macroeconomic impact of COVID-19-related school closures on human capital

January 24, 2023 David Shirreff 0

This column uses a new measure of human capital to estimate the long-term effect of school closures on aggregate productivity across OECD countries Christine de La Maisonneuve, Balázs Égert and Dave Turner are Economists at […]

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Globalisation

Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker: Globalisation à la carte?

January 24, 2023 David Shirreff 0

It’s what people and politics in the industrialised countries want. But after the total globalisation once aspired to there’s a desire to be more selective. Read Here Photo: Benoit Prieur/Wikimedia Commons

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Eurostat: Ukraine & Russia are source of one-third of EU cereal imports

January 24, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Around one-third of the value of the EU’s imports of cereals in 2021 originated from Ukraine (28.8% and valued at €1.7 billion) and Russia (4.8%) combined.  Read Here

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Danny Dorling – How austerity caused crisis in Britain’s national health service

January 10, 2023 David Shirreff 0

The Health and Social Care Act of 2010 – privatisation by stealth – has been a slow-burn disaster for Britain’s National Health Service Danny Dorling is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford […]

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Michael Roberts – ASSA 2023: the mainstream – fiction and reality

January 10, 2023 David Shirreff 0

At the annual conference of the American Economics Association (AEA) in New Orleans, mainstream economists kicked off with presentations under the title ‘Economic Shocks and Their Consequences’ Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]

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DiEM25: The ECB’s blackmailing of DiEM25 should concern us all

January 10, 2023 David Shirreff 0

The ECB asked for 20,000 euros from DiEM25 in legal fees because it dared to demand information that should be available to anyone. This smacks of intimidation. Read Here

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Globalisation

Pierre Haroche – Whose Backyard? Realism and the shifting balance of stakes in Ukraine

January 8, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Did NATO expansion into Russia’s sphere of influence provoke the conflict? Pierre Haroche is a Lecturer in International Relations and International Security at Queen Mary University of London Cross-posted from LSE EUROPP  Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak/Creative […]

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Energy

Simon Hogg – Wind Turbines are already Skyscraper-sized – is there any Limit to how Big they will Get?

January 3, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Why are turbines increasing in size at such a rapid rate, and is there a limit to how big they can go? Simon Hogg is the Ørsted Professor in Renewable Energy at Durham University  DJ […]

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Globalisation

H. Patricia Hynes: Envisioning a World Without Nuclear Weapons

January 3, 2023 David Shirreff 0

While nuclear weapons governments and their bomb-making industries are criminally sleepwalking into what could mean the end of our planet’s life, many others are countering the weapons holders’ political idiocy. Read Here Words projected onto […]

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Energy

Turkish Minute: Erdoğan’s hidden agenda and Turkmen gas

January 3, 2023 David Shirreff 0

Why is President Erdoğan so eager to get involved in a venture that will be helpful to alleviate the EU’s gas needs? Read Here

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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