Economics
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
Kate Raworth talks about her book “Doughnut Economics” Listen here
Economics
Economics
John Rapley – The Bitcoin Mania
Bitcoin “hacked into the global financial system to reveal the dirty little secret of the neoliberal age – namely, that this economy is increasingly built on illusions and conjuring tricks.” John Rapley is a political […]
Economics
John Weeks – It’s simple: [Great Crash]+[Tory austerity] = productivity decline
John Weeks is Professor Emeritus of Economics, SOAS University of London, & editor for Progressive Economist Group. Cross-posted from Prime Economics What Crisis? For the last several years the media have carried reports […]
Economics
Andy Storey – The Myths of Ordoliberalism
As this article demonstrates, EU financial policy is neither determined by law, nor through democratic process, but by its hegemon German led capital. Andy Storey is a lecturer in political economy at University College Dublin […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures
Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]
Economics
Paul Mason: Upward mobility has been shattered. And no one in power cares enough to fix it
Our economic system didn’t intend to suppress the social mobility of working-class kids, but it has. Now their prospects are so bleak that Labour’s promises to the postwar working class seem practically Bolshevik Read here […]
Economics
Pileus – An MMT interlude
The essential insight of Modern Monetary Theory (or “MMT”) is that sovereign, currency-issuing countries are only constrained by real limits. They are not constrained, and cannot be constrained, by purely financial limits because, as issuers […]
Economics
Disintegrative Tendencies in Global Political Economy: Exits and Conflicts by Heikki Patomäki
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Heikki Patomäki is Professor of World Politics at the University of Helsinki, an academic with passions which, despite the scholastic format (and price) of his newest book,Disintegrative Tendencies in […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy
A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here
Economics
Lindsay Mackie – Good and bad productivity
Just as wtih GDP, productivity as such is not good. It depends on the type of productivity as Lindsay Mackie explains. Lindsay Mackie was trained as a journalist in Scotland and joined The Guardian as a […]