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Economics

Xilu Chen, Pei Guangyu, Zheng Michael Song, Fabrizio Zilibotti: Tertiarisation like China

October 25, 2022 David Shirreff 0

China is currently undergoing a rapid tertiarisation process, with its service industries growing as a share of GDP at the expense of both agriculture and manufacturing. This could be a bad omen for future growth. […]

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Frances Coppola – When Populism Fails

October 20, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Although macroeconomic populism failed on Truss’s watch, she was neither its source nor its principal architect – that was Boris Johnson. And the source was George Osborne. [This prescient article was written before Truss’s resignation] Frances […]

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Climate Crisis

Richard Hardigan – EU Deliberately Causes Needless Suffering for Refugees in the Mediterranean

October 20, 2022 David Shirreff 0

If the EU wants to preserve its reputation as a bastion of democracy and human rights it must reconsider its policies Richard Hardigan is a university professor based in California Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photo: Richard […]

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Climate Crisis

Yanis Varoufakis – Our Task? To Inspire the Rebellion against the Legalised Robbery of People & Earth

October 20, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Radical humanists ought to think it necessary to do our best to resist civilisational collapse – even if it is too late. A reply to Chomsky, Fuentes & McPherson Yanis Varoufakis is a former Finance Minister of Greece, […]

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Peter Bofinger and Thomas Haas: A Nobel Award for the Wrong Model

October 20, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Diamond-Dybvig-Bernanke is a flawed model of banking that has no room for a lender of last resort Read Here Ben Bernanke Dollar by Gage Skidmore

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Alexander Melzer: EU Military Mission Is Coming Home

October 20, 2022 David Shirreff 0

On the New European Union Military Assistance Mission in Support of Ukraine: no other EU civilian or military mission has previously aimed to operate on the territory of the Member States. Read Here Photo credit: […]

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Economics

Patrick Cockburn – Bad Leaders, Declining Nations: UK, Italy and Russia

October 18, 2022 David Shirreff 0

The anti-declinist political syndrome is now at its most lethal in Russia, Britain and Italy – with predictably self-destructive results.  Patrick Cockburn is the author of War in the Age of Trump (Verso) Cross-posted from Counterpunch Countries […]

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Michael Roberts: China: Xi’s third term – part two: property, debt and common prosperity

October 18, 2022 David Shirreff 0

The reason that Western analysts are so sceptical of the Chinese model is that they are steeped in a different economic model for growth Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a […]

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Economics

James Meadway – The UK Establishment is back at the controls. Remember what it did last time

October 18, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Jeremy Hunt’s U-turns on Liz Truss’s disastrous mini-budget are no cause for celebration. James Meadway is the Director of the Progressive Economy Forum Cross-posted from openDemocracy UK Chancellor Jeremy Hunt – Photo: Foreign & Commonwealth […]

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Nick Ferris: What has happened to China’s global coal financing?

October 18, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Following China’s pledge to end global coal financing there has been a collapse in overall energy financing but no surge in support for renewables. Read Here Photo credit: PughPugh

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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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