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The Independent: Reject austerity to defeat populism, Portugal’s socialist prime minister António Costa tells EU

March 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Portugal has abandoned austerity – maybe not in a radical manner – but even then the nation’s citizens and economy are faring much better than it ever did under austerity. Read here  

Austerity

Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union

March 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.” Read here  

Corruption

Sven Giegold – Promotion of Selmayr: EU posts must go to the best not to the best connected

March 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

It is good that some EU parliamentarians keep challenging EU corruption, but as we know the EU has become a victim of state capture, as have most European governments. EU politicians are like the 1%. […]

Corruption

Richard Murphy – Guess who won from the Global Financial Crisis?

March 12, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have one tax scandal after the other. Not only do things not improve, they get worse. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues […]

Deregulation

Prem Sikka: This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens

March 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago. What do these nations have in common besides that you probably do not know where they are on the map? They will probably be the […]

EU politics

Gary Younge: Brexit will expose the EU’s democratic deficit

March 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 1

Gary Younge transcends the usual Leave/Remain thrashed to death drivel and provides a thought-provoking piece concerning the EU and Brexit. Read here  

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Austerity

Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck – The Euro Disaster

March 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Many nations within the euro-zone are in chronic economic crisis, which has resulted in a permanent political crisis in the EU. Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck see Germany’s economic policy and neo-liberal ideology as the […]

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Austerity

Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?

March 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]

EU politics

Herman Michiel: The European Left and Brexit

March 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Hermann Michiel asks why the so-called leftist parties in the EU parliament are so close to the leading neo-liberals in their vision of Brexit. Read here  

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Austerity

Bill Mitchell – Think our governments can no longer control capitalism? You’ve been duped

March 7, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Bill Mitchell explores among other topics the neoliberal dominance of the political process and the resulting shifts in economic policies.

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The Debt Delusion by John Weeks

November 14, 2019 1

Book review by Mathew D. Rose When Ha-Joon Chang exhorted: “We need an economic literacy campaign so people understand the language used by the ruling class”, he was probably thinking of books like John Weeks’ […]

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Capital in the 21st Century by Thomas Piketty

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Back in 2014, French economist Thomas Piketty published a blockbuster book, Capital in the 21st century.  Repeating the name of Marx’s Capital, the implication of the title was that it […]

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