Economics
Thomas Fazi: 25 Years of the Euro, The Eurocrats’ secret weapon
Twenty-five years on, the euro has handed them victory Read HERE
Inequality
Economics
Ewout Frankema – From the Great Divergence to South-South divergence
The era of the Great Divergence has come to an end, but there is a rapid, and more recent, economic divergence across the Global South. Ewout Frankema is Professor of Economic and Environmental History at […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel, Giorgos Kallis, Tim Jackson, Daniel W. O’Neill, Juliet B. Schor, Peter A. Victor, Diana Ürge-Vorsatz: Degrowth can work – here’s how science can help
Wealthy countries can create prosperity while using less materials and energy if they abandon economic growth as an objective. Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Tim Sahay: A Year in Crises
When we launched The Polycrisis a year ago, we set out to examine the intersecting crises in the economy, energy system, commodities markets, geopolitics, and climate. Our aim was to break intellectual and political silos […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Books of the year
Every year at this time, Michael looks back at the books that he reviewed during the year Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog Let […]
Finance
Eric Toussaint – “Developing Countries” are Trapped in a New Debt Crisis: How Can This be Explained?
The sovereign debt crisis surging through the global south is due to a series of economic shocks, none of which are of its own making. Eric Toussaint is a historian, political scientist and spokesperson for […]
Austerity
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]
Climate Crisis
Fadhel Kaboub: Decolonising the global economic architecture: The prerequisite for a just transition
Summary Global South faces severe structural deficiencies that weaken its economic sovereignty, putting it at mercy of neo-colonial global financial architecture World Bank and IMF have no vision for decolonising African economies or addressing the […]
EU politics
Sam Okyere – Priced out by imports, Ghana’s farmers risk death to work in Italy
Farmers in Ghana say cheap Italian tomatoes are ruining their businesses. Many have travelled to seek work abroad. Sam Okyere is a lecturer in Sociology at the University of Nottingham. He is primarily interested in […]
Climate Crisis
Fadhel Kaboub – Climate Reparations
Listen HERE Fadhel Kaboub talks about the concept of climate reparations and its significance in tackling the climate crisis. True reparations go beyond financial compensation; they must include transferring technology, repairing our ecosystem, and restructuring […]