Corruption
d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017
An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.
Finance
Austerity
www.parliament.uk: Carillion paid out £6.4mill to advisors before £10mill taxpayer bailout
The collapse of Carillion, one of the UK’s largest leading construction and service companies, has resulted in important analyses concerning transferring public services to private companies. One of its directors claimed that putting money into […]
Finance
Prem Sikka: Here’s how Caffe Nero made £2bn in sales but didn’t pay a penny in corporation tax
Prem Sikka explains how a company can make billions in profit, but book a loss at the end of the year, thus paying no taxes. Read here
Austerity
Charles Adams – An education is not a commodity
A university education is becoming a commodity. Just look at the United States. Like King Midas before it , whatever neo-liberalism touches turns to gold, but is dead. Charles Adams is professor of physics at […]
Corruption
Richard Murphy – Guess who won from the Global Financial Crisis?
We have one tax scandal after the other. Not only do things not improve, they get worse. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues […]
Deregulation
Prem Sikka: This decision will make a mockery of EU claims to be tackling tax havens
American Samoa, Guam, Namibia, Palau, Samoa and Trinidad and Tobago. What do these nations have in common besides that you probably do not know where they are on the map? They will probably be the […]
Finance
Karl Brenke – Germany: Unconditional Basic Income: unnecessary, barely affordable, and politically dangerous
We have posted a number of articles concerning Universal Basic Income – pro and contra. In this posting Karl Brenke, using Germany as an example, comes to the conclusion that UBI is not economically feasible […]
Economics
German Foreign Policy – Germany: The price of being an “Export Champion”
Germans believe that Donald Trump is introducing tariffs because he is stupid and aggressive. Hardly anyone talks aboutGermany’s obscene positive balance of trade. Germany’s mercantilism is no more reactionary than Trump’s policies – and no […]
Economics
Rowan Mataram – “More women in econ!” demand Rethinking Economics
This is 8 March, International Women’s Day 2018. Rethinking Economics is an international network of students, academics and professionals building a better economics in society and the classroom. By Rowan Mataram, Head of Campaigns, Rethinking […]
Austerity
Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck – The Euro Disaster
Many nations within the euro-zone are in chronic economic crisis, which has resulted in a permanent political crisis in the EU. Jörg Bibow and Heiner Flassbeck see Germany’s economic policy and neo-liberal ideology as the […]