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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
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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 […]
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Valerio Alfonso Bruno – The Strategy of Fear: Populism, Technocracy, and European Democracy
The first decades of the 21st century have seen, at the global level, two alarming socio-political trends within democratic countries: the increasing level of economic inequality and citizens’ strong dissatisfaction with political establishments. These trends […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?
Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]
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Geoff Tily: UK Workers have suffered the most dismal decade for growth on record
Why the Tories are still in government is a conundrum. One can be bitter about how Labour turned against the workers, but this is simply intolerable. And do not forget the accomplides of the Tories, […]
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Chris Bambery – Britain’s inequality crisis
The debate around Brexit has distracted from the dramtically and tragically increasing crisis of equaltiy in the United Kingdom (very welcome for those repsonsible, the Tories). Chris Bambery puts the situtation into perspective. Chris Bambery […]
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Richard Murphy: In the sixth largest economy in the world we’re letting local authorities fail and that is wholly unnecessary
Although Richard Murphy is writing about the United Kingdom, this is a pernicious process occuring throughout most of Europe. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]
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Thiemo Fetzer : Tory Austerity And Welfare Cuts Like Bedroom Tax Directly Caused Brexit, New Study Finds
Better late than never. Was Brexit then just a repudiation of UK austerity, or did voters understand the the political establishment in Britain were also part of broader EU policy? Read here
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Frances Coppola – Greece: The Greatest Depression
The Greek people have just lived through a Depression as deep as the Great Depression and considerably longer. It is now the greatest recorded peacetime Depression. Read here