Finance
Branko Milanovic: If you want to be rich, you’d better be born in, or emigrate to a rich country
Branko Milanovic explains the current state of global inequality Read here
Inequality
Economics
John Weeks – Politics of Monetary Policy and Why Progressives Prefer to Tax & Spend
One of the most important victories of neo-liberalism was banning serious fiscal policy by democratically elected governments to deal with economic crises, relegating this power to monetary policy of purportedly independent, yet unelected, central banks. […]
Economics
Jacqueline Best – Why we need to stop letting economic crises go to waste
Economic crises present opportunities to build a more equitable, effective society, but too often these opportunities are lost. Jacqueline Best, SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-posted from Sheffield […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Why Positive Money is wrong
An interesting criticism of Positive Money, a topic about which we have posted a series of articles (see here) Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns […]
Economics
Hilary Wainwright: Beneath the Pavements, the Beach?
This is a long read, thus we postponed posting it until the weekend. In this piece Hilary Wainwright assesses the legacy of the political movement of 1968, coming to the conclusion that despite all attempts […]
Economics
Daniel Randall – Why class still matters: a reply to Paul Mason
This article is a response to Paul Mason’s recent essay ‘Labour must become the party of people who want to change the world, not just Britain’, in which he argues that there can no longer […]
Finance
The Seattle Times: Amazon puts high-profile Seattle plans on ice over proposal to tax large employers
Whatever happened to the high-tech heroes? Maybe it was just fancy public relations work to hide the true destructiveness of monopolists. Read here
Economics
Paul Mason – Labour must become the party of people who want to change the world, not just Britain
‘Networked individuals’ have replaced the industrial working class as the key agent for overhauling capitalism in the digital age. To win power, Labour must represent their values, culture, aspirations and political priorities. Paul Mason is a […]
Climate Crisis
Alf Hornborg – Why you can’t have free trade and save the planet
chuyuss / shutterstock Alf Hornborg, Lund University When Donald Trump recently announced tariffs on steel and aluminium imports he was condemned by proponents of free trade across the world. His critics said the US president […]
Economics
Torsten Bell: Young and old need a new social contract
This is a problem affecting much of Europe, yet almost no one is willing to talk about it. The younger generation is carrying the brunt of the burden for the Great Financial Crisis. To the […]