Climate Crisis
Renegade Inc: 2019 – A Renegade View
As we look forward – with some trepidation – to how events will unfold in 2019, we have invited some friends of the show into the studio to discuss what shocked them in 2018 and […]
Finance
EU politics
Ghent University: ‘We are transforming our university into a place where talent once again feels valued and nurtured’
“A university is above all a place where everything can be questioned. Where opinions, procedures and habits are challenged. Where there is no place for rigidity.” Read here
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing my candidacy for the European Parliament in… Germany
Get caught up on Yanis Varoufakis´ political activities and plans. Listen here Please begin at 1’20” for the English part (before that is in German).
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 […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor – Britain: The economic consequences of Brexit?
We have been complaining about the hysterical discussion around Brexit. This article by Ann Pettifor is one of the great exceptions. She analyses the situation with a cool and clear head. An excellent weekend read […]
Economics
Josh Ryan-Collins – Should credit be guided?
Do not be intimidated by the language and graph. This article exposes why banks are serving society less and speculators and rentiers ever more. It is also not that difficult. Good read for the weekend. […]
Economics
David Harvey – Does Socialism Affect Freedom?
Does socialism require the surrender of individual freedom? The realm of freedom begins when the realm of necessity is left behind. Is freedom of the market real freedom? And what about justice? Prof. Harvey tries […]
Austerity
Michael Roberts: The euro – part two will it survive another 20 years?
In part two of Michael Robert´s analysis of the euro currency, he considers the impact of the global slump of 2008-9 and the ensuing euro debt crisis on prospects for the euro. For part 1 […]
Economics
Ray Dalio – How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio
This 30 minute video introduction to the functioning of monetary (i.e. realistic) economies, drawing on post-Keynesian/Minskian insights
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The so-called euro stability spawned banking system that caused havoc
A very interesting analyses of the role of the EU and European banks in the Great Financial Crisis. Read here