EU politics
Ashoka Mody: Italy Needs to Wake Up and Fix Its Banks
The euro area’s most vulnerable economy is heading into a storm. Read here
Articles by Mathew D. Rose
Economics
Richard Murphy – The economic battlefront has been drawn: let the battle commence
The EU political elite simply cannot shake off its subservience to financial corporations, as Carl Bildt’s tweet once again proves. Democracy plays no role in his vision for Europe. There will have to eventually be a […]
EU politics
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Between Scylla and Charybdis: How trivialization and complexity are “compressing” representative democracy
“The idea that certain political decisions require high levels of knowledge and technical competency—and thus cannot be left simply to public democratic debate—is problematic for democracies, as it implies delegating public policy framing and decision […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: The post-crash world: how the 2008 crisis led to our current age of extemes
Ten years on, the aftershocks of the crash threaten the very notion of the nation state. Read here
Economics
Matthew Yglesias: Elizabeth Warren has a plan to save capitalism
Elizabeth Warren is unveiling a bill to make corporate governance great again. Read here
EU politics
Lorenzo Marsili and Ken Loach: ‘If We Don’t Understand Class Struggle, We Don’t Understand Anything’
Filmmaker Ken Loach on populism, the gig economy, and the importance of transnational solidarity in his movies and beyond. Read here
Austerity
Ryan Cooper: The biggest policy mistake of the last decade
The culprits of the biggest policy mistake of the last decade..are named. Read here
Finance
Branko Milanovic – On the Threshold of the Third Globalization: why Liberal Capitalism might Fail?
This is a text that Branko Milanovic wrote in 1999 (!). It was never published, having been rejected a number of times. It is fascinating reading as the author tries to identify what the components […]
EU politics
Danny Dorling – Tip-toeing to the right in the UK (1979-2014)
Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Cross-posted from Danny Dorling´s blog In hindsight we should have seen it coming. But none of us did, or at least no one […]
Austerity
Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – Turkey, Greece, Italy, etc.
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news. Today’s topics include Trump’s spat […]