Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Globalisation
Globalisation
Branko Milanović – Revolution Number 9. Why the World is in Uproar Right Now
A brilliant piece by Branko Milanović who has the courage to admit that our political categories are useless in explaining the ever increasing number of revolts occurring around the world. Social media may be an […]
Finance
Global Alliance for Tax Justice – Tax Justice in the Extractive Industry now!
As global capitalism continues to lurch from one crisis to the next, massive levels of tax abuse and avoidance are robbing governments of the resources they need. Nowhere is this systemic malaise more manifest than […]
Economics
Jeremy Smith – Rethinking Britain: the Fundamental Choice the Nation Faces in the Upcoming General Election
Probably nowhere in Europe is there so much energy and thought being invested in the search for a way out of the dead end that neo-liberalism has led us into. “Rethinking Britain – Policy Ideas […]
Finance
Bloomberg: The World’s Protesters Want to Soak the Rich, But That’s Not All
Expert on inequality says it’s not ‘blanket story’ for unrest Broken politics underlies it too, especially in Middle East Read here
Economics
Brad W. Setser – Ireland’s Statistical Cry for Help
The distortions to Irish GDP created by new tax residents of Ireland (largely tax “optimizing” US multinationals) have become so big that they are contaminating the numbers for the euro area as a whole. Brad […]
Finance
Nick Shaxson: If tax havens scare you, monopolies should too. And vice versa.
An excellent article, although rather long. So if you have an hour on the weekend to dedicate to erudition read HERE
Economics
Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”
Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]
Finance
Dara Leyden & Benjamin Selwyn: Globalisation’s corroding edifice
The World Bank’s ‘Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains’ Read here
Corruption
Branko Milanović – Why it is not the Crisis of Capitalism
Capitalism is stronger than ever before according to Branko Milanović, so why is there so much talk of a “crisis”? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book “Capitalism, Alone: […]