Economics
Steve Keen: Some Preliminary Questions for MMT
Steve Keen responds to questions with regards to Modern Monetary Theory reaised by Bill Mitchell. Read here
Finance
Climate Crisis
Digiconomist: Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index
The entire Bitcoin network now consumes more energy than a number of countries, based on a report published by the International Energy Agency. Read here
Finance
Richard Murphy and Saila Stausholm: The Big Four – A study of opacity
Not recent, but still current today, concerning The secret world of the Big 4 firms of accountants
Austerity
Chris Dillow: On neoliberalism
For further reading on the topic please also see today’s article “Yes, neoliberalism is a thing. Don’t let economists tell you otherwise” by Christine Berry. Read here
Deregulation
Christine Berry – Yes, neoliberalism is a thing. Don’t let economists tell you otherwise
BRAVE NEW EUROPE has posted a number of articles defining what neo-liberalism is. It is not difficult because it is abstract, but because it is so multifaceted. The shortest definition, which we know is “Deregulation, […]
Economics
Kate Raworth – A healthy economy should be designed to thrive, not grow
Kate Raworth’s TED Talk on the Doughnut Economy Watch here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – LuxLeaks verdict: hope for whistleblowers as Antoine Deltour is acquitted
We’ve always said that the #LuxLeaks whistleblowers Antoine Deltour, Raphaël Halet and investigative journalist Edouard Perrin should never have been charged because the disclosures they were involved in were so obviously in the public interest, […]
Corruption
Beancounters – The Triumph of the Accountants and How they broke Capitalism by Richard Brooks
Book review by Atul K. Shah As Private Eye journalist, Richard Brooks has long been responsible for exposing corporate corruption, especially around tax avoidance and evasion. One story kept on repeating in his research – […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Same old same old…Tory austerity
The British economy is not doing well in any sense. Many UK citizens lead an existential battle of survival. All this has been caused by austerity, which was a miracle solution to solve all economic […]