Rankings have always been highly suspect. In the case of epidemic preparedness and COVID they were a fiasco. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The […]
This is being replicated in the EU By Hannah Dewhirst, Campaigner at Positive Money Cross-posted from Positive Money The government’s new Build Back Better council – meant to help the UK recover from the impact […]
Compared with the third quarter of 2019, the government debt to GDP ratio rose in both the euro area (from 85.8% to 97.3%) and the EU (from 79.2% to 89.8%): the increases are due to […]
We need to drop the taboo on debating how we ought to organize the workplaces where most adults spend most of their lives. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of […]
A good analysis of the challenges facing the Biden government. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog It’s inauguration day. There is a new president […]
At the most basic level, anyone in a policy position is almost always, by definition, on the winning side of the inequality gap. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and […]
We all seem to have forgotten that before COVID we were, and still are, confronted with an existential climate crisis and an economic recession due to the failures of neo-liberalism (again). Richard Murphy is a […]
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
Twelve years ago quantitative easing was considered radical. It was called ‘unconventional’ monetary policy. Actually, it was government just using the power it has to create money at will, which had been pretty much denied until that […]
In order to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, the world must reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Carbon pricing – recently introduced in Germany for transportation and heating – is viewed by many […]
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