Economics
Andrea Lorenzo Capussela – The Political Economy of Italy’s Decline
You can read our review of Andrea´s book here Listen here
National Politics
EU politics
Catalan News: Flanders hits back after Spain withdraws delegate’s diplomatic status
The Spanish government seems to have many problems with human rights – when it is not the human rights of corporations (yes, they too have human rights in the EU, probably stronger than those for citizens). […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: A summary of my meeting with John McDonnell in London
This is one of the most fascinating articles we have posted for some time. It is a one-sided recollection of an event, so one has to be careful, but it is in keeping with much […]
Austerity
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 […]
Austerity
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 […]
Economics
Michael Roberts: Keynes part 2 – internationalist or nationalist?
Was Keynes the great internationalist who aimed to make capitalism a stable system through macro management on a world scale? Read here
Economics
Aditya Chakrabortty: Britain fell for a neoliberal con trick – even the IMF says so
Who says that trickle down does not work?. For almost two years progressive economist have been hammering away that although governments have debts, they also have assets. Translated, you may have a mortgage of 100,000 […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – Denmark in the hands of the capital markets?
Ten years after the global crisis, the financial markets are again being glorified as if nothing had happened. Countries are threatened by capital markets, which will make financing public debt more expensive if their governments […]
EU politics
Caroline Lucas – We have the answers to Brexit’s causes
This process should have begun on March 30, 2017. Only now is some of the left questioning why a majority of Britons voted for Brexit, beside the fact that they are stupid, racist, and manipulated […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: The misplace Rumsfeld assumption
When she was told yesterday that some Universal Credit victims were being driven into prostitution, Esther McVey replied: Tell these ladies that now we’ve got record job vacancies – 830,000 and perhaps there are other […]