Finance
Evgeny Morozov: From Airbnb to city bikes, the ‘sharing economy’ has been seized by big business
To flourish, the informal digital networks providing new services needed to be protected from the market Read here
Finance
Economics
Michael Roberts: Financialisation or profitability?
“What does the term ‘financialisation’ mean and does it add value to our understanding of the contradictions of modern capitalism and guide us to the right policy to change things?” Read here
Finance
Douglas Rushkoff – Universal Basic Income Is Silicon Valley’s Latest Scam
The plan is no gift to the masses, but a tool for our further enslavement David Rushkoff is the author of the upcoming book Team Human, and host of the http://TeamHuman.fm podcast. Cross-posted from Medium […]
Corruption
Public Services International – Conflict of interest: corporations lead UN promotion of controversial PPPs
Corporations seem to dominate the UN, like everything else, these days. For a similar case with regard to human rights and corporation at the UN, please see our review of the book “Corporate Human Rights […]
Environment
Martina Neuwirth – A Climate of Fairness
The tax justice movement and environmental movements are natural allies. This new study explores the issues around which we can coalesce Martina Neuwirth is Development Expert at the Vienna Institute for International Dialogue and Cooperation […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The ‘fiscal contraction expansion’ lie lives on – now playing in Italy – Part 1
“Pathetic was the first word that came to mind when I read this article – The Italian Budget: A Case of Contractionary Fiscal Expansion? – written by Olivier Blanchard and Jeromin Zettlemeyer, from the Peter […]
Climate Crisis
The Sustainability Agenda – Ian Gough
In this interview, we welcome Ian Gough to discuss his most recent book Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism, and Sustainable Wellbeing. Here, Ian describes his initial concerns over the evident gap between […]
Finance
Dani Rodrik: Reclaiming Community
Stable families, good jobs, strong schools, abundant and safe public spaces, and pride in local cultures and history – these are the essential elements of prosperous societies. Neither global markets nor the nation-state can adequately […]
Economics
Aufhebunga Bunga – Numbers Are Too Powerful featuring William Davies
We discuss Nervous States with its author: How has debate became so angery!1!! and fractious? Why don’t we trust institutions any more — or better, which institutions do we still trust and why? How has war […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Post Keynesianism
As someone who identifies as a Post Keynesian, and criticises mainstream economists for caricaturing rather than understanding Keynes’s novel contributions to economics, it was a great pleasure to be invited to address the Keynes Society […]