Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – What’s wrong with capitalism?
Another interesting interview with Yanis Varoufakis.
Inequality
Climate Crisis
Marshall Auerback – Let’s Make Sure We Get the Green New Deal Right
COVID-19 will force us to rethink many of the assumptions underlying existing GND proposals. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator. This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – How Workers Can Win the Class War Being Waged Upon Them
We continue with our series of articles mapping out possible ways of changing the economy to once again serve the majority of people and preserve the environment. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus […]
Climate Crisis
Albena Azmanova, James Galbraith – Disaster Capitalism or the Green New Deal
“The task — as at the start of Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal a century ago — is to conquer fear, anxiety, instability, insecurity, and precarity.” Albena Azmanova of the University of Kent James K. Galbraith […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Confronting racism, repairing history
The wave of mobilisation against racism and racial discrimination poses a crucial question: that of reparations for a past history involving slavery and colonisation. This is an issue which has still not been fully confronted. […]
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck, Friederike Spiecker – The Reward for Wage-Cuts is Disaster
There is no return to pre-crisis normality. The new lessons must be learned quickly, otherwise an economic catastrophe is imminent. The course must now be set correctly, especially with regard to debts and wages. Heiner […]
Economics
Caroline Metz – Distressed Debts and the Crisis of Social Reproduction in Europe
Distressed debts – also known as ‘non-performing loans’ – have been a key issue in Europe, especially in countries where austerity has fuelled a deep social crisis. Yet EU institutions are focusing on the development […]
Finance
Franziska Disslbacher, Patrick Mokre – What the latest Household Finance and Consumption Survey tells us about Wealth Inequality in Europe
Questions of inequality and distribution are likely to become increasingly important in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Franziska Disslbacher and Patrick Mokre draw on the latest Household Finance and Consumption Survey, released in March, […]
Economics
Antonio Lettieri – The Misadventures of the Eurozone
The ultra-liberal principles that govern the eurozone exclude direct public intervention. The result is a decade characterised by lower growth and higher unemployment in the developed world. Antonio Lettieri is Editor of Insight and President […]
Finance
Gary Younge – Black Lives Matter & The Question of Violence
“Riots are often justified, what’s the French Revolution but a riot blessed by history”