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Marshall Auerback: If the Euro Cracks—Blame Germany, Not the Italians
The drive for German industrial hegemony is in its overreach stage and risks blowing up the currency union. Read here
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Bill Mitchell: Left-liberals and neoliberals really should not be in the same party
In four short articles Bill Mitchell addresses the need for progressive politics to free itself from neoliberal language, constructs and economists. Its a good read for the weekend. Read here
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Heiner Flassbeck: Pierre Moscovici – the last French Socialist
It is more than tragic that the last high-ranking French Socialist is playing the role of the executioner of Italy. Fear of neo-liberalism will eventually be the death of the Social Democrat movement. Heiner Flassbeck […]
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Adam Tooze – On his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”
Adam Tooze on his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World” in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin. This is the German version. Unfortunately the English talk was […]
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Jeffrey Sommers – “No People, Big Problem”: Democracy and Its Discontents In Latvia
Jeffrey Summers analyses the recent elections in Latvia. His fazit: The chief lessons from Latvia’s election are that ethnic Russians have not taken over. Their main political party remained stable and saw its support slightly […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: MMT and Labour’s fiscal rule
Simon Wren-Lewis, one of the architects of the British Labour Party´s “Fiscal Rule”, replies to Bill Mitchell`s criticism (read here and here) Read here
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Jon Trickett – Our democracy isn’t working – it’s time to fight for it
Corporate power has captured the centralised state – but Labour’s commitment to a Constitutional Convention offers root and branch reform, writes Jon Trickett. Jon Trickett is a Labour MP and Shadow Minister for the Cabinet […]
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Dead Pundits Society – Socialize Finance! with Grace Blakeley
Joining Dead Pundtis Society this week to discuss the dynamics of neoliberal finance (without boring the shit out of you) is Grace Blakeley. We open the show by talking about The World Transformed conference that […]
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Yanis Varoufakis: On Europe’s austerity drive and DiEM25 – an OECD podcast
One country that symbolised the crisis of the last 10 years was Greece. Its insolvency embarked the country on a long regime of bail-outs and austerity. This August, Greece officially emerged from the crisis, with […]
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Labour Heartlands: France should renegotiate EU treaties or leave!
FRENCH socialist leader Jean-Luc Melenchon said that France should leave the EU if it proves impossible to renegotiate treaties that are “incompatible” with his party’s socialist programme. Read here