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Climate Crisis

Sam Lowe – Should the EU put a Tax on Imported CO2?

September 29, 2019 David Shirreff 0

An EU carbon border tax would be tricky to design, costly to implement and sure to provoke legal challenges. But if done properly there are reasons to think it could succeed, says the Centre for […]

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Climate Crisis

Counterpunch: Rob Urie – Climate Change and Technology

September 28, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Most of the proposed technical solutions exacerbate environmental ills in other dimensions, and threaten to unleash a host of unintended consequences. Rob Urie is is an artist and political economist. His book Zen Economics is published by […]

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Matt Finch – Decarbonising Aviation. Plane easy?

September 28, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Unfortunately, no. Some sectors – such as aviation – seem to defy all logical ways to offset their carbon footprint. Can the UK possibly achieve zero-carbon planes by 2050? Matt Finch is ECIU business and […]

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Corruption

Prem Sikka: There’s a grimly familiar Story behind Thomas Cook’s Collapse

September 27, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The holiday provider’s collapse highlights corporate governance and regulatory failures while the gravy train for directors continued. Read here

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Climate Crisis

New Economics Foundation: Netting Zero – What does a Just Transition look like for the UK Fishing Industry?

September 27, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The IPPC special report on oceans and the cryosphere  shows that the climate crisis is attacking our oceans. For the UK to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050, restoring the oceans should be a clear […]

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Economics

Tax Justice Network: A New Vision for Europe amid the Brexit Vortex

September 27, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Britain’s about to become the neighbour from hell, post-Brexit: how can the EU defend citizens from the race to the bottom?

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Economics

Ann Pettifor: How the Sexist ‘Nobel Prize’ in Economics has Warped the World

September 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics will be 50 years old next month. One thing unites all its winners, bar one: they have all been male. Read here

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Climate Crisis

Richard Collett-White: US Lobby Groups Most Effective at Blocking Climate Action – Report

September 25, 2019 David Shirreff 0

US lobby groups representing the fossil fuel and automotive industries are world leaders when it comes to stalling government action on climate change, new research shows. Read here

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Inequality

Heiner Flassbeck – Inequality and Taxes

September 4, 2019 David Shirreff 0

A proposal in Germany to re-introduce a wealth tax has had the conservatives foaming at the mouth. Even the IMF has criticised the country’s widening inequality gap. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as well as […]

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National Politics

Counterpunch: Victor Grossmann – German elections a mixture of joy and great sorrow

September 4, 2019 David Shirreff 0

Neither in the Saxony or Brandenburg elections did voters give the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the Number One position it had hungered for. But in both German states the main parties must build coalitions […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

January 15, 2026 0

Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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