EU politics
Politico: France dials back on digital tax plans after US meetings
The great Macron movement seems to be going the usual EU neo-liberal route. Read here
Finance
EU politics
Thomas Piktetty – Budget 2018: French youth sacrified
Macron’s 2018 Budget fits in the EU pattern: More Money for the wealthy, less for the young, in this case for higher education. Read here
EU politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Dani Rodrik talks straight on trade
Wren-Lewis discusses Dani Rodrik’s new book “Straight talk on trade”. Read here
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – October Podcast
In edition 70 of the Taxcast we look at the booming business of passports and residency for sale, and why it should worry us all. Also: even the IMF now advocates wealth taxes to combat […]
Finance
Charles Adams – The scarcity myth
It all comes down to a simple question. As Democracy began in ancient Athens around 2,500 years ago, everyone knew what was at stake: the distribution of wealth. There were no mathematical formulas necessary to […]
Finance
Branko Milanovic : Can mass mobilization wars increase income inequality?
Milanovic examines the war as a great leveler hypothesis . Read here
Finance
Can we avoid another financial crisis? by Steve Keen
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Steve Keen has a credential that few macro-economists can boast of: He foresaw the coming of the financial crash of 2007. In his latest book, “Can we avoid another […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Why conservatives should be Corbynistas
“Bourgeois virtues pay off in a bourgeois society – where there is a large middle class. But they don’t pay off in a 1% takes all society where wealth is accumulated in shadier ways.” Read […]
Finance
Max Lawson: Is inequality going up or down?
Originally published on Tax Research UK Lawson looks at the development of inequality worldwide. Read here
EU politics
Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation
As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]