Economics
Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here
Regulation
Austerity
Tax Justice Network – A firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby
In the July 2018 Taxcast: we look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby: we look at a new report from […]
EU politics
New Economics Foundation – The rise of the data oligarchs
There are troubling signs that the new data-driven economy is inheriting all the same problems as the old one: power imbalances, monopolies and a lack of accountability. Listen here
Economics
VoxEU – The missing profits of nations
Between 1985 and 2018, the global average statutory corporate tax rate fell by more than half. This column uses new macroeconomic data to argue that profit shifting is a key driver of this decline. Close […]
EU politics
Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors
Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here
Corruption
This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers
This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]
Corruption
New Economics Foundation – Reprotection: halting the EU’s deregulation drive
“Over the last decade, European politicians have started to undermine the protections that many people depend on. And Brexit is set to make things worse.” This raises the question of who understands the role of […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: The Italian crisis was the Left’s final warning
The Left must adopt a new, credible EU policy agenda: It’s time to explain how the bloc, and the euro, could be run differently, democratically and sustainably Read here
Economics
Sergio Cesaratto – Tsipras’s tie. What moral can we draw from the Greek crisis?
Klaus Regling, the head of the eurozone’s bailout fund and a German, concerning the most recent EU “debt relief” for Grecce: “It is the biggest act of solidarity that the world has ever seen” (Reglings […]
Austerity
David Whyte – Two neoliberal infernos: Grenfell, and Piper Alpha 30 years on
Profit-before-safety, warnings ignored, 239 people dead. Britain’s oil bonanza and London’s gentrification have much in common. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal studies at the University of Liverpool. His most recent book is The Violence […]