A prime minister, a banker, the heads of the top telecom company, construction moguls, assorted friends and family. Portugal’s biggest corruption case ever is a veritable who’s who of the nation’s political and business elite. […]
Owen Jones may not be for Catalonia’s independence from Spain, but he recognises that all people have a right to self-determination: “I have little truck with pro-independence movements unless a nation is oppressed, like those […]
GDP has become a fetish. This obsession with major GDP growth makes reducing CO² impossible. The other downside is that GDP growth mainly ends up enriching the 1 %. The solution lies in re-distribution. There […]
“The EU is facing a crisis of legitimacy – but retreating to the nation-state will only benefit the far right.” The authors set out a plethora of programmes to save the EU. Read here
Today, Costa Rica is a thorn in the side of orthodox economics. The conventional wisdom holds that high GDP is essential for longevity: “wealthier is healthier”, as former World Bank chief economist Larry Summers put […]
Initially Mitchell rambles a bit, but eventually he arrives at his topic, controlling capital flows. Read here
Consumer and student debt in the UK have reached unprecedented levels and are a warning that austerity could lead to a new financial crisis, explains Positive Money’s economist Edward Smythe in this interview for The […]
Globalisation has ravaged the economies and societies in the industrialised world. Uneven growth and deindustrialisation are causing political turmoil. The left, trapped in a limited territorial state, is likely to fail even if it wins […]
The world is stuck in a political and economic rut. A system that has failed and is daily failing 99% of the earth’s population needs to be replaced. George Monbiot offers a series of solutions. […]
It’s an old story in many cities. Artists move into a derelict building, because the need cheap ateliers or rehearsal rooms. The building becomes hip, property developers buy it and throw out the artists. Luxury flats […]
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