Finance
Nick Shaxson: No, corporate tax avoidance is not legal
So tax avoidance is perfectly legal: it’s evasion that’s illegal (and criminal)? Not so fast. Read here
Finance
Finance
Jason Hickel – How Not to Measure Inequality
There are two primary methods for measuring inequality – relative and absolute. In the discipline of economics, the former has become dominant by far. It is embodied in the standard Gini index, in the famous […]
Economics
The Real News Network: The MMT Debate With Dean Baker & Randall Wray
Modern Money Theory, or MMT— is it way to fund the Green New Deal? For the transcript go here
Economics
Michael Roberts: Inequality and Risk – Both Rising
Michael Roberts looks at inequality, which is reaching new highs. The same forces that are thus debilitating society are equally debilitating the economic system that is alimenting this inequality. Michael Roberts is an Economist in […]
Economics
Carlo Clericetti – Robin Against the Output Gap
Rather than Robin Hood, our hero is the financial analyst Robin Brooks, who from the heart of the institutions of power is waging a campaign against using dubious estimates to make judgments on budgetary policies, […]
Economics
Frances Coppola – Why Targeting Productivity is a Bad Idea
No economist appears currently to have a solution for increasing productivity, While the British Labour Party has frittered away its time with Brexit, a faux-anti-semitism crisis, and the Blairite Fifth Column, it has apparently given […]
Economics
Ashoka Mody: Europe cannot escape nationalism
For good reason, European leaders and intellectuals worry that, absent the utmost vigilance, virulent nationalism could again be unleashed with the full force of its destructive potential. Europe, they believe, is essential to prevent such […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Pretty Much All That Most People Need to Know About Modern Monetary Theory
Richard Murphy’s take on Modern Monetary Theory. Do familiarise yourself with this. In one form or another it could well play a major role in our financial and economic future. It also appears to offer […]
Climate Crisis
Heiner Flassbeck – Reason for Future
It is said that CO² must finally get a price. But it already has a price. But consumers don’t react to this price as expected. More intensive thinking and political action is the order of […]
Deregulation
Jörn Boewe – The Dirty Routine on European Motorways
Underbidding competition dominates long-distance lorry traffic on European roads. Working conditions are inhumane, and the EU initiates only half-hearted countermeasures to alleviate these inequities. To change things for the better, the countervailing power of unions […]