Economics
Larry Elliot: To trust each other again, we need to become more equal
The gap between rich and poor has been widening for decades, driving a climate of mistrust that harms us all Read here
Inequality
Economics
Corporate Human Rights Violations by Stéfanie Khoury and David Whyte
Book review by Mathew D. Rose The term “human rights” has a positive connotation: inalienable rights for everyone, regardless of location, religion, ethnicity or any other qualities. There is one clear anomaly in this system: […]
Economics
Andreas Møller Mulvad and Rune Møller Stahl: The Real Denmark
An excellent, objective piece concerning the current state of Denmark and the Scandinavian nations. In the rest of Europe Scandinavia is not villified, it simply does not exist as it does not fit in the […]
Austerity
Robert Skidelsky: How austerity broke Britain – and how we can recover
After ten years of wrongheaded and brutal spending cuts, Keynes’s warning that bad economics produces political extremism is more important than ever. Read here
Climate Crisis
Larry Elliot: Climate change will make the next global crash the worst
The storm clouds are gathering, but the world’s economies now have far fewer shelters from disaster than they did in 1929 Read here
Austerity
Adam Standring – Towards a post-crisis moral political economy?
Recent calls for economic justice, and particularly intergenerational justice, suggest a new post-crisis moral political economy could be emerging Adam Standring is a PhD student at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal Cross-posted from the […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: Young people are rewiring capitalism with their McStrike
A precarious and exploited workforce has had enough: young employees are joining unions and demanding to be heard Read here
Economics
Larry Elliot: Even Amazon must heed the basic laws of economics and politics
Tech giant’s minimum wage rise more to do with looming labour shortage than philanthropy Read here
Economics
Laurie Macfarlane – Why the distribution of wealth has more to do with power than productivity
The distribution of wealth has little to do with contribution or productivity, and everything to do with politics and power. Laurie macfarlane is Economics Editor at openDemocracy Cross-posted from Open Democracy Image: Glenn Halog, CC […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – Germany: A renewed left as the imperative of political reason
Wolfgang Streeck is without doubt the foremost analyst of German politics and society. Germany´s post war political world is crumbling – and rather quickly. Streeck is one of the few who has recognised this, and […]