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Sergio Cesaratto – Tragic but not serious: the surreal document of the 14 Franco-German economists

February 15, 2018 MDRose 0

Surrealism is king! Germany and other European neo-liberal policy makers are trying to take control of Italy’s finances. As usual, neo-liberal economists are there to help. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics […]

Economics

Ann Pettifor – Do tax revenues finance government spending?

February 15, 2018 MDRose 0

No. There are a number of misconceptions of how state finances function. In this piece Ann Pettifor adresses one of these: why taxes are not used for spending. Ann Pettifor – Economist, director of Policy […]

Deregulation

Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy

February 13, 2018 MDRose 0

In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]

Deregulation

Ann Pettifor – The financialisation of the housing market

February 13, 2018 MDRose 0

Sky.rocketing house prices have nothing to do with a shortage of housing. It is the result of speculation. To make matters worse, property has become financialised, thus converting it from a place to live and […]

Economics

Chris Dillow: NEOLIBERALISM AS LACK OF SELF-RESTRAINT

February 13, 2018 MDRose 0

“…neoliberal bosses have something in common with child molesters. Both lack restraint in the pursuit of their own self-gratification in situations where they think they can get away with it.” The problem is not greed […]

Deregulation

John Harris: Profiteers make a killing on Airbnb – and erode communities

February 13, 2018 MDRose 0

The Sharing Economy is simply capitalism in new clothes. Housing shortage is bewailed throughout Europe, but important causes like Airbnb ignored. Nor does anyone mention how communities, especially in inner cities, are being destroyed by […]

Climate Crisis

Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne

February 11, 2018 MDRose 0

Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]

Economics

Richard Murphy – Modern monetary theory in a nutshell

February 10, 2018 MDRose 0

Here is something to mull over on the weekend. BRAVE NEW EUROPE features a number of authors who are proponents of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). We consider it an extremely important idea and shall continue […]

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular

February 9, 2018 MDRose 0

Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]

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Mark Blyth and Carrie Nordlund – Demarcation

February 8, 2018 MDRose 0

Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program, share their take on the week’s news and discuss Trump’s State of […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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