Economics
Michael Roberts: Free trade or protectionism? – the Keynesian dilemma
This is a good take on tariffs, free trade, and protectionism and what the advantages and disadvantages are. Read here
Globalisation
Economics
Jason Hickel – “To eradicate poverty we have to radically reorganise the global economy”
Jason Hickel explains why the numbers being used to measure world poverty are not accurate and give the impression of improvement, where the situation is in reality getting worse.
Economics
Adam Tooze: Neoliberalism’s World Order
This is a book review by Adam Tooze of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism by Quinn Slobodian. A good historical outline of neo-liberalism. Read here Pascal Lamy, former director-general of […]
Economics
Serban V.C. Enache: Historical and Socialist Views on Immigration
Serban V.C. Enache attempts to provide a more objective examination of immigration. Read here
Austerity
Danny Dorling: This is what peak inequality looks like
This is an era of gross unfairness. But it will slowly come to an end Read here
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Irish house prices sky-high due to finance not scarcity
This all sounds frightfully familiar. It is a problem that currently extends through much of Europe. Read here
Economics
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth
Book review by Branko Milanovic My first Summer book to read and review is Kate Raworth’s very successful “Doughnut economics: Seven ways to think like the 21st-century economist”. It is an ambitious book whose objective […]
Economics
Branko Milanovic – Lecture at John Adams Institute
Economist Branko Milanovic presents a new approach for the age of globalization. Who are the winners and losers of globalization? One of the world’s leading economists of inequality, the former World Bank economist Branko Milanovic, […]
Austerity
Paul Mason: Donald Trump is a symptom of the new global disorder, not the cause
Neoliberalism and the revolt against austerity have pushed powerful states to impose social and economic pain on each other, or on smaller states. Read here P
Finance
The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS by Atul K. Shah
A book review by Prabhu Sivabalan In The Politics of Financial Risk, Audit and Regulation: A Case Study of HBOS, Atul K. Shah examines the HBOS collapse of 2008, and uses it as a platform to […]