Corruption
d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017
An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.
Inequality
Austerity
Charles Adams – An education is not a commodity
A university education is becoming a commodity. Just look at the United States. Like King Midas before it , whatever neo-liberalism touches turns to gold, but is dead. Charles Adams is professor of physics at […]
Deregulation
Prem Sikka: This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens
American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago. What do these nations have in common besides that you probably do not know where they are on the map? They will probably be the […]
Economics
Rowan Mataram – “More women in econ!” demand Rethinking Economics
This is 8 March, International Women’s Day 2018. Rethinking Economics is an international network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom. By Rowan Mataram, Head of Campaigns, Rethinking […]
Austerity
Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?
I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]
Economics
Diane Coyle on fixing Britain’s economy
Diane speaks to openDemocracy about industrial strategy, universal basic infrastructure, moving beyond GDP, and how to build an economy that works for the 21st century.
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: The economic and political cost of UK austerity
While George Osborne is crowing about the success of austerity, Simon Wren-lewis examines the high costs of Osborne’s failed economic policy. Read here
Austerity
Bill Hudson: Greek debt update
The eurozone must collapse in the end. If it does not, the entire eurozone will end up looking like Greece looks like today. Greece is the eurozone’s future, if it is kept in place. Read […]
EU politics
Aeron Davis: Is the British establishment finally finished?
The British elite in self-destruction mode. Aeron Davis looks at the developments in Britain’s establishment of the past 50 years and why it is inexorably dedicated to destroying itself – unfortunately with a lot of […]
Austerity
Guy Standing – Why Britain’s Tories do not believe in free markets
The claims of Brtain’s Coservative Party amounts to a lie. They have been building the most unfree market system ever conceived. Guy Standing is Fellow of the UK Academy of Social Sciences, and Professorial Research […]