Economics
Prem Sikka: Why we should resist the rush to a cashless society
Accounting expert Prem Sikka warns of a new social divide Read here
Financial Institutions
EU politics
Antonio Lettieri – The Misadventures of Working Time in the 21st Century
Working hours were at the centre of social progress in the second half of the last century. Now deregulation has become the rule, breaking up personal and family life. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight […]
Climate Crisis
Jan Fichtner, Eelke Heemskerk, Johannes Petry – Three Financial Firms could change the Direction of the Climate Crisis – and Few People have any Idea
Dirty deeds done cheap. Mangulina Jan Fichtner, University of Amsterdam; Eelke Heemskerk, University of Amsterdam, and Johannes Petry, University of Warwick A silent revolution is happening in investing. It is a paradigm shift that will […]
Economics
Corpnet – Who owns big business: the rise of the passive investor
A short, but very well explained and illustrated film concerning the three big passive asset managers.
Economics
Robert Skidelsky – The Monetarist Fantasy is Over
The only stabilizing that a capitalist market economy needed, Friedman said, was of the price level. Provided that inflation was controlled by independent central banks and government budgets were kept “balanced,” economies would normally be […]
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – EU Blacklists UK’s Crown Jewel Tax Haven While Letting Other Tax Havens Off the Hook
EU blacklist adds Cayman but addresses only 7% of global financial secrecy, but EU policy is still based upon hypocrisy, as well as aiding and abetting. The Tax Justice Network is an independent international network […]
Corruption
Claire Jones: The World Bank paper at the centre of a controversy
When corruption sets in, the fish rots from the head: in this case recent actions of the World Bank carry a whiff of something not quite right! Read here
Economics
Ndongo Samba Sylla, Peter Doyle – Abolish Africa’s Sovereign Debtors’ Prisons Now
In a radical call for reform of the IMF’s pro-creditor and anti-growth approach to indebted countries in Africa, Ndongo Sylla and Peter Doyle argue that the continent has a choice to make. Creditors, using the […]
Austerity
Francisco Perez – France/Africa: The end of the CFA Franc?
Africa is of course not part of our remit, but this is clear case of neo-colonialism, in which not only France is involved, but also the euro and the International Monetary Fund. Francisco Perez is […]
Economics
Juan Laborda – Watch Out for the Shadow Banks!
Fed interventions intensified at the beginning of December, and may in fact be the seed of an emergency programme to make up for the lack of liquidity among some financial institutions. Juan Laborda teaches Financial […]