Finance
Oxfam: 5 shocking facts about extreme global inequality and how to even it up
It cannot grow more shocking, but somehow it seems to. Here the newest concerning inequality. Read here
Inequality
Austerity
Jihen Chandoul: The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting
The IMF claims to have learnt from its mistakes and writes lovely papers criticising its own policies of the past. Still they have not swerved an inch from their traditional policy of brutal austerity. Read […]
Austerity
Richard Murphy – Is realism the new ‘ism’?
This article is sure to provoke debate. Richard Murphy is a catalyst who drives political and economic discussions forwards and this article is no exception. With neo-liberalism going from crisis to crisis in the UK, […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: ON CAPITALIST HEGEMONY
Do neo-liberal structures have a stranglehold on democracy? In the case of Greece we found out that it does. How can this be broken, asks Chris Dillow. Read here
Austerity
German Foreign Policy – Tunisia: Pushed into a Dead End
After Greece, Germany appears to be set for a repeat performance in Tunisia. Read here
Economics
Aditya Chakrabortty: Britain is being stalked by a zombie elite – time to take them on
Democracy is the government of the people by the people for the people. As gpvernments fail miserably, it is time to take back power. Aditya Chakrabortty is beginning a series of how this is being […]
Economics
Thomas Piketty: 2018, the year of Europe
There are some truly shocking numbers in Piketty’s blog: But in Warsaw or in Prague, events are interpreted quite differently. They point out that the rate of return on the private investment from the West […]
Finance
Chris Dillow: GENES & THE LEFT
Eugenics seems to be on the rise again, now that meritocracy has been revealed as a farce, especially with regard to the heirs of the rich. Chris Dillow concludes neither is important for the Left. […]
Economics
Lino Zeddies: Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic
Wrong! It is not only governments that create money. Financial institutions such as banks do too. Who controls the economy and how? Here some answers to the questions. Lino Zeddies is an economist Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Bernie Sanders: Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
“We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice. Will this be an easy struggle? […]