Economics
Bill Mitchell – Governments should do everything possible to avoid recessions – yet they don’t
The significance of hysteresis. Read here
Finance
Economics
Marshall Auerback – We Won’t Have a Truly Global Economy Until People Start Taxing It That Way
Reconstructing our tax system is an integral part of future national industrial policy as we restart the economy. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator This article was produced by Economy for All, a project […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Deficits, Debt, and Deflation after the Pandemic
What is possibly in store for the world economy in the near future? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog The Great Lockdown enforced […]
Austerity
Emma Clancy – Greenwashing Austerity
This is what many voters will discover: European Green parties are more interested in a place at the political trough than in radical environmental of social policy. Emma Clancy works as an advisor for Martin […]
Corruption
Branko Milanović – Can Corruption be good for Growth?
This is a topic that is underexposed in Europe, because, as Branko states, it is endemic in the West, just not in the form we use to define it. Just as important is raising the […]
Climate Crisis
Jacqueline Cottrell – Carbon Taxes Can Be Progressive: Myth-busting and Mainstreaming Carbon Taxes
While carbon taxes were once at the centre of discussions about tackling climate crisis, aggressive lobbying by fossil fuel advocates persuaded the public that they are regressive and would hit the world’s poorest hardest. Jacqueline […]
Economics
Danisha Kazi – Unemployment is the Next Crisis – we cannot repeat the mistakes of the 1980s
This article, although about the UK is relevant for most nations in the EU. Danisha Kazi is Senior Economist at Positive Money UK Cross-posted from Positive Money A tsunami-like wave of job cuts is expected […]
Finance
Carlos Rodríguez Expósito – My Vision for the Transnational Workers’ Network
Following the first Global Workers’ Conference on 24-25 June of the Transnational Workers’ Network (TWN), Carlos Rodríguez Expósito of Taxi Project 2.0 gives his view of the strategy that can be pursued by the network […]
Economics
Miquel Vila Moreno – The Need for Grassroot Nationalism
The ruptures provoked by globalisation has prompted a nationalist revival in the early 21st Century. Miquel Vila is an activist in the Catalan pro-independence movement, and a political scientist specialised in International Relations In 2019, […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – There Could be More than 6 million Unemployed People in the UK by Christmas and No One seems to be Planning for That Possibility
Just as many people are doing there best to ignore the fact that we are in the midst of a pandemic, they are also ignoring the current titanic economic crisis. This is true for the […]