Climate Change
Mark Blyth: Europe’s new conflicts
Migrants, economy, environment: Europe is one big argument. And the showdown’s in May? Read here
Inequality
Economics
Michel Feher: The Political Ascendancy of Creditworthiness
Michel Feher writes for @PublicBooks on how the logic of credit-worthiness explains the present populist moment Read here
Finance
Liam Farrell – Ireland: ‘We have people without homes and homes without people. Mission not completed.’
Somehow Ireland has rarely been a topic in BRAVE NEW EUROPE except for its tax policies. Our Partners and comrades at The New Pretender posted this and were so kind as to let us present […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine – Why the debate about Modern Monetary Theory in the Scottish independence movement is exactly what we need right now
While the Catalan independence movement is bogged down and limited to presenting itself as a victim, the Scottish independence movement is seeking the discussion that is necessary: What sort of society should an independent Scotland […]
Austerity
Serge Halimi: Forgotten France rises up
A brilliant article. Le Monde diplomatique at its best. The social reality Halimi describes could be the UK. Also the forces protecting neo-liberalism: Graduates, the middle class, those in big cities, the EU ‘Journalists must […]
Economics
Grace Blakely: The British high street crisis is due to debt, not Brexit
With British household debt reaching a new high, it did not really need an ecnonomist to explain this. But in this time of Brexit hysteria the obvious becomes arcane and the ridiculous becomes a story […]
Economics
Branko Milanović- What is the just pay? Capitalists, John Roemer, and the Cultural Revolution
This question becomes even more relevant in view of climate change and how to cut back on our use of natural resources: do we have to produce increasingly more? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised […]
Economics
John Rapley: Economics as a moral tale
The development sector set out to summon the magic of capitalism from the ashes of communism. How is it going? Read here
Corruption
Tabe Bergman – Fixing the problems of politics and media as usual: not with a media revolution, but ending economic insecurity
With increasingly corrupt state and corporate media, as well as growing inequality, with people having three jobs to survive and little time for politics, democracy is being rapidly eroded. New politics and new media are […]
Economics
Dani Rodrik – The Left’s Choice
In the face of resurgent right-wing populism, the left’s relative weakness partly reflects the decline of unions and organized labor groups, which have historically formed the backbone of leftist and socialist movements. But four decades […]