Economics
Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here
Inequality
Austerity
Tax Justice Network – A firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby
In the July 2018 Taxcast: we look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby: we look at a new report from […]
Economics
Politics Theory Other – Grace Blakeley on financialisation and the UK economy
Grace Blakeley joins Politics Theory Others to discuss the neoliberal financialisation of the UK and world economies, the coming reckoning with the UK’s current account deficit, and how we can wrest control away from the […]
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled
The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]
Finance
Chris Dillow: Anti-communism as bad faith
Anti-communism was and still is a very comfortable part of a defence of inequality in the west. Read here
Economics
Carys Roberts – Jeff Bezos’s fortune has come at the expense of workers and society not receiving their fair share
The richest man in the world did not get there alone; his wealth is created by the exploitation of Amazon’s millions of workers, suppliers and consumers. By Carys Roberts, Senior Economist at IPPR and an […]
Gig Economy
cnet: Amazon workers in Europe go on strike during Prime Day
It is encouraging to see workers in three EU nations (Poland, Spain, and Germany) going on strike simultaneously against the monopolist Amazon. Let us hope that workers from other countries will join in in the […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – Dambisa Moyo is wrong about the global economy – here’s why
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works […]
Economics
Steve Parfitt – Two tiny but mighty new trade unions offer UK a better way to ‘take back control’
Eyes On Rights / flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Steven Parfitt, Loughborough University Many people in the UK interpret “take back control” as “close the borders”. But there are other ways for people to restore their communities […]
Austerity
Kate Pickett – Mental health effects of inequality
Kate Pickett joins Politics Theory Other to discuss her new book – co-authored with Richard Wilkinson – The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-being, the follow up […]