EU politics
Anthony Barnett: The Lure of Greatness
Anthony Barnett discusses his new book, The Lure of Greatness, Part 1 – LabourTube
Articles by Mathew D. Rose
Finance
Ireland’s tax deals help fuel global inequality: Joseph Stiglitz
Ireland has become one of the most egregious peddlers of tax deals to transnational corporations. The EU, whose president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, is himself infamous for initiating and promoting similar tax evasion […]
Finance
Irish Examiner: Eight of top 100 multinationals pay no tax on profits
See the link above. These numbers from the article say it all: “Eight of the 100 companies with the highest taxable income had effective tax rates of zero, including some which had negative rates — […]
EU politics
John Rapley – Britain’s Slow Suicide Sort of Makes Sense
John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight of the Money Gods’, which was reviewed in BRAVE NEW EUROPE Cross-posted from John’s blog brixtonsubversity We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on […]
EU politics
David Whyte – Catalonia: the promise of a republic built on civil disobedience
When many nations in the EU come under pressure one suddenly realises how thin the democratic veneer is. This is of little surprise, as the principal raison d’être of the EU is economic, better said […]
Austerity
Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten – Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?
Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have stressed the violence of austerity. In 2013 David Stuckler and Sanjy Basu wrote a convincing book entitled “The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills” concerning the short […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy
A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here
EU politics
Bill Mitchell: The EMU reform ruse
This is a very long read, but there is probably no one in the world who knows in such detail how and why the EU functions as Bill Mitchell. Part 1 Part 2
Economics
Lindsay Mackie – Good and bad productivity
Just as wtih GDP, productivity as such is not good. It depends on the type of productivity as Lindsay Mackie explains. Lindsay Mackie was trained as a journalist in Scotland and joined The Guardian as a […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – TEN YEARS ON: RETHINKING MONEY AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
The programme begins at 8:19. The sound is very poor. Sara Mahmoud, Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation Tony Greenham, Director of Economy Enterprise and Manufacturing, RSA Josh Ryan-Collins, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Innovation and […]