Corruption
Craig Mackay – Endemic Corruption in the UK?
Europeans believe they have very little corruption. That is because laws have been created to make corrruption legal – at least when it is on a large scale. Read here
EU politics
Corruption
Daniele Albertazzi and Arianna Giovannini – The 2018 Italian election: old faces, new parties, familiar certainty
Italian elections are rapidly nearing. Although this article left out Liberi e Pari (Free and Equal) it ohterwiseprovides a good overview. The conclusion seems realistic enough: after the elections there will be no change, just […]
Austerity
Heiner Flassbeck – German Coalition Agreement: No new beginning, no dynamism, no cohesion, just the same old mercantilism
The Grand Coalition Agreement in Germany contains of a lot of words, yet little content. It does not fulfil what it promises, but is simply a programme for the intensified continuation of German mercantilism. Heiner […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Austerity
John Weeks explains why one does not need an economist to understand economics, why austerity in Britain was and is unnecessary, the importance of gilts in a society, and lots more.
Austerity
Sergio Cesaratto – Tragic but not serious: the surreal document of the 14 Franco-German economists
Surrealism is king! Germany and other European neo-liberal policy makers are trying to take control of Italy’s finances. As usual, neo-liberal economists are there to help. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics […]
EU politics
Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: how a Liverpool suburb upended its housing market
This is the real stuff: Taking back power. After decades of neglect from local government, the the citizens of the Granby area in Liverpool took matters into its own hands to provide affordable housing. Read […]
Austerity
Colin Hines – ‘#No Brexit Jeremy Corbyn’: saving the UK economy and getting Labour elected
A different Remain. Colin Hines is one of the few trying to promote remain, while correcting the failed policies that resulted in Brexit. The question is if the Tories and the EU are seeking an […]
Deregulation
Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy
In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]
Deregulation
Ann Pettifor – The financialisation of the housing market
Sky.rocketing house prices have nothing to do with a shortage of housing. It is the result of speculation. To make matters worse, property has become financialised, thus converting it from a place to live and […]
EU politics
Gavin Kelly: Rebooting the rank and file: why there’s still hope for the unions
A union revival? In these bleak times, it seems wishful thinking. Maybe not, as Gavin Kelly writes. Read here