Austerity
Thomas Piketty: Social-nativism, the Italian nightmare
Piketty brings together two simple phenomena: a neo-liberal EU resulting in a neo-liberal/far-right success – in this case in Italy. Read here
Economics
Economics
Mariana Mazzucato – The Value of Everything – making and taking in the global economy
IIPP Director Mariana Mazzucato speaks on new book about the concept of value, with audience Q&A chaired by Paul Mason. Watch here
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Why growth can’t be green
The promise of green growth turns out to have been based more on wishful thinking than on evidence. In the years since the Rio conference, three major empirical studies have arrived at the same rather […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Realism Not Ideology
The OECD established NAEC (“New Approaches to Economic Challenges“) in response to its failure to warn of the economic crisis that began in August 2007, and which led, a year later, to the collapse of […]
Economics
Des Freedman: Lecturers are fed up with being the big losers in the higher education market
What is described in this piece is symptomatic for the whole of Europe. Our universities are destined to become commodities in service of neo-liberalism. Let us not forget that education is what made European culture […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik: Can Trade Agreements Be a Friend to Labor?
To date, labor clauses in trade agreements have remained a fig leaf, neither raising labor standards abroad nor protecting them at home. Real change would require a significantly different approach, including how trade agreements uphold […]
Economics
The Film “The Spider´s Web” has been released in youtube (Watch here)
The Film “The Spider´s Web” has been released in youtube. A film one has to see to understand finance capital in Britain and tax havens. Sponsor the next film on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independentdo… Here our review […]
Economics
Politics Theory Other – Adam Tooze on ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’ (Part 2)
Adam Tooze joins me for part two of our discussion on his new book, ‘Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World’. We spoke about the Brexit vote, Emmanuel Macron’s EU reform agenda, […]
Economics
Bernie Sanders: A new authoritarian axis demands an international progressive front
As we are learning in Europe, the centrist parties do not fight the rise of the right, but tries to co-opt them by means of carrots and sticks. They may well find themselves co-opted, as […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Our new international movement will fight rising fascism and globalists
Maybe there is an international leftist movement gaining traction – although this would just be a beginning. See the piece by Yanis Varoufakis on this topic here Read here