Economics
Robert Reich – A Federal Jobs Guarantee
What would a Jobs Guarantee Programme achieve. Robert Reich explains the advantages
Finance
Economics
John Tomaney, Karel Williams, Rachel Reeves – The Everyday Economy: why it matters and how to rebuild it
This may be an article about Britain, but the structures are repeated throughout the EU. Thus the analysis should be of interest for all readers. John Tomaney is Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at […]
EU politics
The Mirror: Google ‘avoided paying £1.5bn in tax’ that could have paid for 60,000 nurses
The abuse, and the losses, go on. We know how to stop this. Read here
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: IMF changes tune on industry policy – shamelessly – Part 1
First it was capital controls (no one talks about the success of Iceland with this policy) that the IMF revised. Now it is what the IMF refers to as “The policy that shall not be […]
Economics
Lars P. Syll – The real debt problem
The ad nauseam repeated claim that our public debt is excessive and that we have to balance the public budget is nothing but absolute nonsense. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of […]
Austerity
Johnna Montgomerie – How austerity is made: economic storytelling about debt
Johnna Montgomerie argues that austerity is made through economic narratives about debt. She explains how the story the UK has adopted ends up preventing the necessary structural reforms needed to revitalise the economy. Johnna Montgomerie […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Pluralism in economics: mainstream, heterodox and Marxist
Another brilliant weekend read by Michael Roberts. You need not be an economics expert, but should you stumble on a term or two, the internet will help you on the way. Michael Roberts – Economist […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: ECB denial is just embarrassing
Understanding the failures of the European Central Bank Read here
Corruption
Reuters – Explainer: Europe’s money laundering scandal
A nice summary of EU money-laundering – up to now. This story still has a lot of road ahead of it as the US authorities tend to be more strident in their investigations (see the […]
Corruption
Prem Sikka: The ‘Big Four’ accounting firms should be broken up
Britain goes from one massive accounting scandal to the next. There are two parallels: The reports were egregiously wrong and the accounting firms earned loads of money for these reports. Read here