Economics
Douglas Rushkoff: How tech’s richest plan to save themselves after the apocalypse
Is this madness or simply the ultimate indivdualistic solution to a communal problem? Read here
Finance
Economics
VoxEU – The missing profits of nations
Between 1985 and 2018, the global average statutory corporate tax rate fell by more than half. This column uses new macroeconomic data to argue that profit shifting is a key driver of this decline. Close […]
EU politics
Global Finance: Auditing The Auditors
Recent audit failures are bringing new scrutiny to the dominance and business practices of the Big Four accounting firms. Read here
Economics
Steve Keen – A Crash in Two Years
Few people saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. Steve Keen was one of them. He is a ferocious critic of the neoclassical school of economics, which continues to dictate thinking within governments, universities and the […]
Corruption
Bill Mitchell: The neoliberal ‘progressives’ and their bankster mates are becoming rattled
The “Third Way” social democrats in Europe and “liberal democrats” in the US are politically bankrupt. Their only assets are the donations from financial institutions and international corporations, but as we saw with Hilary Clinton, […]
Austerity
Forbes: Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money
Heard this sort of thing before? Public libraries became an important element of the Commons and democracy. They too are to become commodities. See where that ends (click here) This article was such a bloody […]
Finance
Chris Dillow: Anti-communism as bad faith
Anti-communism was and still is a very comfortable part of a defence of inequality in the west. Read here
Economics
Carys Roberts – Jeff Bezos’s fortune has come at the expense of workers and society not receiving their fair share
The richest man in the world did not get there alone; his wealth is created by the exploitation of Amazon’s millions of workers, suppliers and consumers. By Carys Roberts, Senior Economist at IPPR and an […]
Finance
Brett Scott: The cashless society is a con – and big finance is behind it
Banks are closing ATMs and branches in an attempt to ‘nudge’ users towards digital services – and it’s all for their own benefit Read here
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – “Let nations go bankrupt!”
If the euro does not become a currency for all the euro zone nations, it is doomed to failure and will result in much more suffering for its citizens. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, as […]