Economics
State of Nature – One Question: Economic Crash
Is there an economic crash coming soon? Wolfgang Streeck, Cédric Durand, Susan Newman, David M Kotz, Minqi Li, Mary Mellor, and many others provide a short answer. Read here
Finance
Economics
Lina Galvez – The Social Exploitation of Women: An insidious form of poverty that hits women hardest
To truly comprehend gender inequality it is necessary to expand the factors, such as time poverty, used to analyse the situation. Lina Gálvez is Professor of Economic History and Gender Studies at Pablo de Olavide […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The Future of Capitalism
Podcast about the trajectory of capitalism and democracy, Center for Urban Research and Austerity, January 15, 2018 A talk with Wolfgang Streeck, Professor emeritus of sociology. From 1995 to 2014 he was Director at the Max Planck […]
Economics
Mark Blyth and Simon Tilford – How the Eurozone Might Split
The end of the Euro. The end of the EU. Germany outed as Europe’s hegemon. MARK BLYTH is Eastman Professor of Political Economy at Brown University SIMON TILFORD is an economist Cross-posted from Foreign Affairs […]
Economics
Lino Zeddies: Money creation and inequality – an underexposed topic
Wrong! It is not only governments that create money. Financial institutions such as banks do too. Who controls the economy and how? Here some answers to the questions. Lino Zeddies is an economist Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Bernie Sanders: Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
“We must develop an international movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class and leads us to a world of economic, social and environmental justice. Will this be an easy struggle? […]
Economics
Jim Stanford – The minimum wage myth
There is another myth that needs slaying: Minimum wage increases kill jobs
Economics
David Pakman Show – Study shows higher minimum wages work
They said it could not be. If you raise the minimum wage, jobs would be lost. Right? Wrong. Here interesting information from the US concerning Seattle’s ambitious minimum wage programme.
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: Globalisation is stuck in a trap. What will it be when it breaks free?
Globalisation has been caught in a steel trap of its own making. Its crisis is due to too much money in the wrong hands. Yanis Varoufakis analyses the world crisis and offers concrete solutions. Read […]
EU politics
Malta Today: Over 31,000 companies in Malta have foreign shareholders
Over one third of the companies in Malta are foreign owned. This is not only due to being able to buy EU cititzenship in Malta by investing, but because Malta is a major EU tax […]