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Mathew D. Rose – Angela Merkel: The End of Hopey, Changey EU

May 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Just as Angela Merkel’s reputation as the world leader of Liberal Democracy – not difficult while Donald Trump was in office – is fading following a series of fiascos, she has been outflanked by the […]

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Corruption

Corporate Europe Observatory – The EU Commission’s pharma echo chamber

May 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Who meets the European Commission to discuss the scarcity of COVID vaccines and medicines in Europe and globally? An investigation of recent meetings show a disconcerting pattern: only those not questioning big pharma’s monopoly on […]

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Bloomberg – Merkel Pushes Back on Vaccine Patent Waiver in Clash With Biden

May 6, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

When the Trump reactionary high tide is in everyone looks liberal. Now that that tide is out the  “Great Leader” of European liberal democracy is discovered to be skinny dipping. Read here  

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Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager – Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet

May 4, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped? Joseph Baines is a lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London Sandy Brian Hager is […]

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Gig Economy Project – Digital Platform Workers in the Pandemic Crisis: A Year of Struggle

April 30, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Despite the global recession and pandemic, there are signs that a workers’ movement in the digital platform economy is developing. To mark International Workers’ Day, Ben Wray looks at key developments in platform worker struggles […]

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Economics

Thomas Piketty: Rights for poor countries

April 27, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Covid-19 crisis, the most serious global health crisis in a century, forces us to fundamentally rethink the notion of international solidarity. Beyond the right to produce vaccines and medical equipment, it is the whole […]

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Economics

Jon Queally – Share Vaccine Recipes With Poor During Pandemic? One of World’s Richest Men Bill Gates Says ‘No’

April 26, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Who appointed this billionaire head of global health?” asked one critic. “Oh yeah, he did.” Jon Queally is managing editor for Common Dreams Cross-posted from Common Dreams Bill Gates, one of the world’s richest men […]

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Corruption

The Counterbalance – The European System of Monopoly

April 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

An interview with Tommaso Valletti, who served as Chief Competition Economist at the European Commission from 2016 until 2019.  He tells us how, after moving from academic life to policy and being confronted with questions […]

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Corruption

Corporate Europe Observatory: Big pharma lobby’s self-serving claims block global access to vaccines

April 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The self-serving arguments used by big pharma lobbyists at meetings with the European Commission to defend monopoly intellectual property rights on vaccines are demonstrably false. Corporate Europe Observatory has uncovered new documents from December 2020 […]

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Economics

Richard Murphy – The break away football league is all about the corruption of markets that the Tories have done so much to assist. Are they really going to oppose it now?

April 19, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

In neo-liberalism everything loses its inherent value and becomes a vehicle to profit-maximisation. Richard Murphy is a Visiting Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues of tax […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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