Economics
Jalopnik: Uber (Finally) Admits It’s Directly Competing With Public Transportation
Of course capitalism likes to depict itself as one great public service spreading jobs and wealth to the population of this planet. Read here
Inequality
Austerity
Servaas Storm – How to Ruin a Country in Three Decades
As Italy enters its third recession in a decade, its austerity-fueled crisis is a warning to the Eurozone. Although a bit long, it is time well invested as Storm astutely analyses the current economic and […]
Austerity
Emma Clancy – The eurozone’s ‘soulless market’ and its thuggish enforcers
The EU hegemon Germany has rigged the Euro to serve its interests. Germany has been the big winner, having benefited by €1.9 trillion from the euro between 1999 and 2017, or around €23,000 per person. […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: Why the world needs a new financial order
Capital mobility has sucked money out of the global South and into financial vortexes such as Wall Street and the City of London. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Madness on both sides of the Atlantic
Europe´s future generations will pay for the German ideological obsession for rules over reality. Read here
Economics
Robert Reich – A Federal Jobs Guarantee
What would a Jobs Guarantee Programme achieve. Robert Reich explains the advantages
Economics
John Tomaney, Karel Williams, Rachel Reeves – The Everyday Economy: why it matters and how to rebuild it
This may be an article about Britain, but the structures are repeated throughout the EU. Thus the analysis should be of interest for all readers. John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – Government attempts to ‘live within its means’ encourages UK households living beyond theirs
This applies to the whole of the EU: When governments reduce their debt, the debts of private households and companies increase. And when companies do not invest as well, who has to go into debt? […]
Climate Crisis
Nicholas Beuret – Emissions inequality: there is a gulf between global rich and poor
jag_cz / shutterstock Nicholas Beuret, University of Essex American congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently shook up environmental politics by releasing a broad outline of a Green New Deal – a plan to make the US a […]
Finance
Kevin Farnsworth – There’s not just Five Giants, there’s a whole bunch to slay
Using the example of Amazon, Kevin Farnsworth develops a strategy on how to fight back against giant corporations. Kevin Farnsworth is a Reader in Social Policy at the University of York. He also founded and […]