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Oliver Norgrove: Burst pipes: Why water privatisation failed

March 5, 2018 MDRose 0

Privatisation in Britain has ended ih high prices, poor service, and the infrastructure in tatters. Yet the Conservative Party still sees it as a great British success. Read here  

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EU politics

Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery

March 4, 2018 MDRose 0

The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]

Climate Crisis

Aditya Chakrabortty: The small town that started a community revolution across Europe

February 28, 2018 MDRose 0

Not only did the little community of Wolfhagen in Germany take over its electricity grid from the multi-national E.ON, but in the meantime has gone over to renewable energy. All of this in the hands […]

EU politics

Aeron Davis: Is the British establishment finally finished?

February 27, 2018 MDRose 0

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 […]

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Guy Standing – Why Britain’s Tories do not believe in free markets

February 26, 2018 MDRose 0

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 […]

Climate Crisis

Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne

February 11, 2018 MDRose 0

Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]

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Renegade Inc – Digital is killing democracy: André Krouwel

February 11, 2018 MDRose 0

A big assumption we make when talking about the internet and social media is that it is a power for good and enhances democracy. But what if this assumption is out of date and instead […]

Economics

Kevin Carty: Tech giants are the robber barons of our time

February 5, 2018 MDRose 0

Apple, Google, Facebook and Amazon. Everyone uses them. Many like them. They are monopolies – and destructive ones at that. Read here  

Economics

Richard Murphy – Socialising the economy

January 25, 2018 MDRose 0

“Capitalism is dead on its feet.” There is little to debate here. The question is, what should follow? Richard Murphy makes 12 suggestions. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: The fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism

January 25, 2018 MDRose 0

There is nothing wrong with a free market. There is when it has been corrupted by neo-liberalism resulting in monopolies and crony-capitalism. It then destroys the market, and that is where we currently are. Read […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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