Economics
John Rapley – Getting Used to Terror
I posted this article two years ago, in the wake of a coordinated series of terrorist attacks in Paris. Re-reading it after yesterday’s attack in New York, it seems as relevant to me now as […]
Finance
Economics
Michael Jacobs – Time for a paradigm shift?
The report of Institute for Public Policy Research makes the explicit case that the 2008 financial crisis and the failure of economic policy in the decade since marks an economic paradigm shift moment – of breakdown […]
Finance
Aditya Chakrabortty: A basic income for everyone? Yes, Finland shows it really can work
Universal Basic Income is, like Helicopter Money or a Green New Deal, held in contempt by the establishment: not practical, not possible, something for the loony left. In reality it is an idea being increasingly […]
Finance
Nick Dearden: If Labour wants to save the NHS, it needs to cut out Big Pharma
Giant drug companies – ‘Big Pharma’ – have become the ultimate symbol of a broken corporate model. They live off monopolies on medicines discovered many years ago, extending those monopolies by making tiny changes to […]
Economics
Leslie Huckfield – Procurement & the Third Sector
UK outsourcing or external procurement is huge and significant. “Just Another Paperclip,” a Report for the Business Services Association (the private outsourcers’ group) shows that “in 2014-15, UK government spent £242bn – almost one-third of […]
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: A short guide to why we should not raise UK interest rates
Everyone expects the MPC to raise rates on Thursday. This would be a mistake. Discussion about interest rate changes in the press normally involve large amounts of data and charts about the state of the […]
Deregulation
Renegade Inc: Michael Hudson – J is for Junk Economics
Michael Hudson on neo-classical economics and neo-liberalism. Watch here
Deregulation
Anat Admati: Seeing through “the banker’s new clothes”
Anat R. Admati holds a bachelor’s degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a doctorate from Yale University, and is a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her recent […]
EU politics
New Economics Foundation: Can we do better than Uber?
Last month, Transport for London announced it was withdrawing ride-hailing firm Uber’s license to operate in the capital. Despite complaints over passenger safety and poor treatment of drivers, many Londoners came to Uber’s defence, valuing […]
Finance
Oxfam: “The Heist No One Is Talking About”
When companies are transparent about where they pay tax, we can start holding large global companies to account if it looks like they are making big profits from a country that is seeing little tax […]