Economics
Branko Milanović on Global Inequality: What Do We Do?
A short interview seeking solution to global inequality. Listen here
Economics
Economics
Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal”
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 […]
Economics
Simon Wren Lewis: Fiscal policy remains in the stone age
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 […]
Economics
Guntram B. Wolff: Germany’s current account surplus and corporate investment
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 […]
Economics
John Weeks – Politics of Monetary Policy and Why Progressives Prefer to Tax & Spend
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. […]
Economics
Jacqueline Best – Why we need to stop letting economic crises go to waste
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 […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: May 1968 and inequality
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
Economics
John Weeks – Negative Money: Inflation Targets are Bad Policy & 2% is Nonsense
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. […]
Economics
BBC Radio 4 – Das Kapital by Karl Marx Dramatised by Sarah Woods
What an interesting programme! Listen here
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why Positive Money is wrong
An interesting criticism of Positive Money, a topic about which we have posted a series of articles (see here) Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]