Environment
Nick Dearden: Tricks of the trade
Liam Fox is planning bargain-basement trade deals for Brexit Britain – but Labour policy promises to deliver trade justice and democracy for the many. Read here
Globalisation
Austerity
Michael Hudson – Rescuing the Banks Instead of the Economy
2018 marks the 10th anniversary of the stock market crash of 2008; the current financial malaise is the result of the bank bailouts, not the crash; an over-indebted economy cannot be saved unless the banks […]
Economics
Frances Coppola – The myth of monetary sovereignty
This is an interesting contribution in our ongoing debate about Modern Monetary Theory. Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, a contributor to Forbes and the Financial Times and […]
Austerity
Red Pepper – Costas Lapavitsas: Socialism starts at home
Michael Calderbank speaks to Marxist economist Costas Lapavitsas ahead of the publication of his provocative new book The Left Case Against the EU Also read our review of Costas Lapavitsas´s newest book “The Left Case Against the […]
Economics
Branko Milanovic – Globalists: Neoliberals in search of terrestrial empire
We are posting this book review in our main section because we shall be reviewing Quinn Slobodians book ourselves in the near future. We still wished to share this piece with you, so here it […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda: Interview with Jason Hickle
This is a wide-ranging and thought-provoking interview, chock full of fresh thinking on sustainability, poverty and inequality, and the impact of the western-led development agenda across the world. Jason paints an eye-opening picture of the […]
Economics
Rowland Atkinson – London’s extraordinary surplus of empty luxury apartments revealed
This article demonstrates only too well how financialisation of housing is transforming living space it into a commodity, in this case in London. Matt From London/Flickr., CC BY Rowland Atkinson, University of Sheffield More than […]
Globalisation
The Intercept: Tax Havens and Other Dirty Tricks Let U.S. Corporations Steal $180 Billion From the Rest of the World Every Year
Are tax havens an enraging but tangential subject? Or do they have a powerful effect on the how the U.S. economy functions, and should therefore be a part of every political debate? Read here
Austerity
Adam Tooze – On his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World”
Adam Tooze on his book “Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World” in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin. This is the German version. Unfortunately the English talk was […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast October 2018
In the October 2018 Taxcast: we speak to Nicholas Shaxson about his new book “The Finance Curse: How Global Finance Is Making Us All Poorer” released alongside new research from the Sheffield Political Economy Research […]