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George Monbiot: The UK government wants to put a price on nature – but that will destroy it

May 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tories eeclared they were preparing a new, robust environmental policy. The result is the usual neo-liberal rubbish. Everything is reduced to its monetary value. Whoever still has a connection with nature knows this is […]

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Branko Milanovic: Why were the Balkans underdeveloped? A geographical hypothesis

May 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Interesting examination of the historical economic structure of the Balkans. Read here  

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Branko Milanović on Global Inequality: What Do We Do?

May 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A short interview seeking solution to global inequality. Listen here  

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Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal”

May 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a similar to what Colin Hines has been saying (here and here) for which he has been viciously attacked in the UK. This is a couple of years old. For the rest of […]

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Simon Wren Lewis: Fiscal policy remains in the stone age

May 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Monetary policy is not working and much of the world economy is limping along waiting for the next crisis and recession. Recently we posted an excellent article on the necessity of fiscal policy by John […]

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Guntram B. Wolff: Germany’s current account surplus and corporate investment

May 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Following the 1990s post-reunification period and since the beginning of monetary union, Germany’s current account has grown substantially. In the crisis years, Germany’s lost about 15 percentage points of GDP in its external investments, but […]

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John Weeks – Politics of Monetary Policy and Why Progressives Prefer to Tax & Spend

May 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

One of the most important victories of neo-liberalism was banning serious fiscal policy by democratically elected governments to deal with economic crises, relegating this power to monetary policy of purportedly independent, yet unelected, central banks. […]

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Jacqueline Best – Why we need to stop letting economic crises go to waste

May 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Economic crises present opportunities to build a more equitable, effective society, but too often these opportunities are lost. Jacqueline Best, SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-posted from Sheffield […]

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Thomas Piketty: May 1968 and inequality

May 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The May ’68 Movement was the start of a historical period of considerable reduction in social inequalities in France which ran out of steam later for quite different reasons. Read here  

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John Weeks – Negative Money: Inflation Targets are Bad Policy & 2% is Nonsense

May 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Last week we cross-posted Richard Murphy’s critical blog concerning “Why Positive Money is Wrong” (read here). John Weeks sent us this elaboration on Richard Murphy’s article, looking at the issue of the 2% inflation target. […]

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The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform by Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian

March 27, 2026 0

Book Review by Branko Milanović Odd Arne Westad and Chen Jian’s The Great Transformation: China’s Road from Revolution to Reform is a book about how China transformed itself between the Great Leap Forward and the early […]

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Germany’s Jewish Problem: Genocides Past and Present by Wieland Hoban

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Reviewed by Raymond Deane On 30 January, Uwe Becker – the so-called commissioner for Jewish life and the fight against anti-Semitism in the German state of Hesse – demanded that the organization Jewish Voice for […]

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