Finance
The Nation: Amazon Doesn’t Just Want to Dominate the Market—It Wants to Become the Market
This is the story of how a monopoly destroys the free market, affecting all of us. Read here
Finance
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Better Technology Isn’t The Solution To Ecological Collapse
That we are ignoring an impending ecological disaster does not necessitate much intellect. That the use of GDP is contributing to this process is also no secret. As Jason Hickel points out, both have to […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – “Proptech” could exploit renters like Uber does workers
The financialisation of the rental sector left under the control of algorithms. This would be the neo-liberal reform of the housing problem that is plaguing much of Europe. It would surely porduce some attractive profits, […]
Austerity
George Monbiot – How to really take back control
A wide ranging lecture by George Monbiot that ticks almost all boxes.
Finance
New Economics Foundation – Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Services?
Some people think universal basic income is a utopian impossibility. Others think it’s dangerous. So there’s a proposal for another solution: universal basic services. Instead of giving people money, why not guarantee all of the […]
Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here
Economics
Positive Money: UK consumer credit approaches 2008 peak
We have been here before. To keep the economy too much money has been leant to those who cannot repay their debts. It does not take much imagination to guess what follows. Read here
Economics
Claire Connelly: What the left can learn from Mont Pèlerin
The historian Philip Mirowski says the left lacks a compelling story about how markets work, and for too long has conceived of government and markets as separate entities. Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Inequality and poverty
Here is another case of “Lies, damned lies, and statistics”. A constant Gini coefficient (a statistical representation of the income or wealth distribution of a nation’s populace) does not necessarily mean poverty is not increasing, nor […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: My response to a German critic of Modern Monetary Theory – Part 3
This is the last in a series of articles by Bill Mitchell concerning Modern Monetary Theory. Here are Part 1 and Part 2 Read here