Climate Crisis
red pepper: Exposing the economic lies behind the fracking hype
That fracking is a disaster for the environment and climate change is known. In her article Anna Baum touches upon the financial aspects. Read here
Economics
Economics
Christine Berry: Flipping the script on our economic stories
What is the story of the economy in Britain? Who gets to shape public opinion about what it’s for, how it’s broken and how it can be fixed? Christine Berry explains the findings of the new […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone policy failures laid bare
The Eurozone might be seeing a little sunshine creeping out from the very dark clouds. But it is far from recovered and the future is ominously black. On many key (cyclical) indicators it still is […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: Centrists & capitalism
Are John McDonnell and Jeremy Corbyn opening the way to socialism. If having a greater stake in society means more ownership for the “rank and file”, then yes, argues Chris Dillow. Read here
Economics
Paul De Grauwe and Yuemei Ji: Financial engineering will not stabilise an unstable euro area
If you can get through it, there are some interesting points made. Read here
Economics
Renegade Inc: Neoliberal v Neoclassical economics – what’s the difference?
It is important that this point is repeatedly made. By the way, the podcasts are excellent. Read here
Economics
LARS P. SYLL: Top 20 heterodox economics books
It is great when someone goes to the trouble of creating a list like this. Read here
Economics
Steve Keen – Talk with Positive Money
This was a fairly “a la carte” presentation of why bank creation of money matters as part of a Positive Money talk at the Hackney Downs Studios on March 14 2018. Steve started with how […]
Austerity
Bernie Sanders: The corporate media ignores the rise of oligarchy. The rest of us shouldn’t
The main difference between the media in the United States and the EU is that here two journalists who tried to report the non-corporate-media side of the story were recently murdered. Read here
Austerity
Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World by William Mitchell and Thomas Fazi
Book review by Mathew D. Rose According to Bill Mitchell the book’s original title was “Reclaiming the Nation State”. The progressive publisher wanted the word nation removed. The term “Nation State”, claimed the publisher, was […]