Finance
Financial Review: Private dinner between Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC chiefs in spotlight
Four accountants walk into a room. What could possibly go wrong? Read here
Monopolies
Climate Change
Michael Roberts – The Green New Deal and changing America
While the UK Labour party has frittered away a valuable year distracted by inflationary claims of anti-semitism and with Brexit, the Democratic Socialists in the US are driving on an intense debate concerning a Green […]
Economics
Tax Justice Network – Oligopoly Capitalism: the threats to economies and democracies
In this month’s Taxcast: Oligopoly Capitalism: the threats to economies and democracies. Naomi Fowler talks to investor and author Jonathan Tepper who’s co-written a book called ‘The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the death of […]
Finance
Tim Wu – “It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Cross-posted from Pro Market The blog of the Stigler Center at the University […]
Finance
Jean Tirole – Regulating the disrupters
Digitization represents a marvellous opportunity for our societies; but it also introduces new dangers, while amplifying others Read here
Finance
Kieren McCarthy: Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…
No one likes a lying asshole Read here
EU politics
cnet: Facebook fined $11.4M in Italy over data misuse
After a year of woe, the social network’s data-related troubles aren’t yet over. Read here After a year of woe, the social network’s data-related troubles aren’t yet over.
Corruption
The Guardian: Uber pushed for UK congestion charges that would hit poor hardest
Two neo-liberals have a meeting. A Tory minister, notorious for his incompetence in public transport – or attempt to destroy its credibility, who wishes to further privatise public transport, and the CEO of an international […]
Climate Change
Jason Hickel: Our best shot at cooling the planet might be right under our feet
Great idea. Unfortunately the problem is always the same: moneyed interests buy corrupt politicians, be it in the USA, EU, or elsewhere, who block these measures. Great ideas do not always change policy. Politics do. […]
Austerity
David Harvey – A History of Neo-liberalism, Part 1
David Harvey, Distinguished Professor of anthropology and geography at City University of New York and author of A Brief History of Neoliberalism argues with Chris Hedges that Neoliberalism, the manta of the global corporate elites, […]