Economics
Chris Dillow: HOW TO DEFEND CAPITALISM
“Capitalism hasn’t come into doubt because people woke up stupid one morning. It’s in question because it has stopped delivering the goods.” Read here
Economics
Economics
John Rapley – Getting Used to Terror
I posted this article two years ago, in the wake of a coordinated series of terrorist attacks in Paris. Re-reading it after yesterday’s attack in New York, it seems as relevant to me now as […]
Economics
Michael Jacobs – Time for a paradigm shift?
The report of Institute for Public Policy Research makes the explicit case that the 2008 financial crisis and the failure of economic policy in the decade since marks an economic paradigm shift moment – of breakdown […]
Economics
Leslie Huckfield – Procurement & the Third Sector
UK outsourcing or external procurement is huge and significant. “Just Another Paperclip,” a Report for the Business Services Association (the private outsourcers’ group) shows that “in 2014-15, UK government spent £242bn – almost one-third of […]
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: A short guide to why we should not raise UK interest rates
Everyone expects the MPC to raise rates on Thursday. This would be a mistake. Discussion about interest rate changes in the press normally involve large amounts of data and charts about the state of the […]
Deregulation
Renegade Inc: Michael Hudson – J is for Junk Economics
Michael Hudson on neo-classical economics and neo-liberalism. Watch here
Economics
Lars Syll – Why the ‘analytical’ method does not work in economics
Deductivist models and ‘analytical’ methods disconnected from reality are not relevant to predict, explain or understand real-world economies. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden Cross-posted […]
Austerity
Mathew D. Rose: Brexit – Land of Hope and Glory
An article written directly after the Brexit referendum. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime and an editor of BRAVE NEW EUROPE. The vote for Brexit is the best thing […]