Finance
New Weather Institute: The absent and violent corporation
Human beings, so used to ‘the customer is always right,’ are now to be bled from every angle and then treated as costs to be cut rather than assets to be cosseted. Read here
Finance
EU politics
Bill Mitchell – Wolfgang Schäuble is gone but his disastrous legacy will continue
Bill Mitchell has a long, hard look at the legacy of Germany’s outgoing finance minister Wolfgang Schäuble. Read here
Finance
David Laws and Charles S. Adams – Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?
Two non-economists explain the creation of money and what becomes of it. It is a strightforward piece for those who get bogged down by technical economic terms. They also explain why a government debt is not […]
Finance
Richard Murphy – Thoughts on the IMF and World Bank
Murphy believes there could well have been a sea change at the IMF and World Bank. It is however one thing to produce analyses and papers making the right noises, and the IMF arguing that […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
Deregulation
Simon Wren-Lewis: How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market
Using Colin Crouch’s new book “Can Neoliberalism Be Saved From Itself” as a starting point, Wren-Lewis re-examines his own definition of neo-liberalism. He comes to the conclusion that neo-liberalism is the misuse of the ideal […]
EU politics
UNOG: SWITZERLAND NEEDS TO STEP UP WORK TO CURB ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS – UN EXPERT
The UN is always very diplomatic in its criticism, thus this is saying that Switzerland is continuing its old money laundering and tax regime practices . With regard to money laundering they write: “It is […]
Finance
Steve Keen: What would economics look like if it had succeeded?
Steve Keen’s newest frontal attack on neo-classical economics. You can follow Steve at his blog PATREON
Corruption
João Paulo Batalha – Corruption in Portugal: The mighty have fallen – the elite’s day of reckoning
A prime minister, a banker, the heads of the top telecom company, construction moguls, assorted friends and family. Portugal’s biggest corruption case ever is a veritable who’s who of the nation’s political and business elite. […]
Climate Crisis
Jason Hickel – Why less is more
GDP has become a fetish. This obsession with major GDP growth makes reducing CO² impossible. The other downside is that GDP growth mainly ends up enriching the 1 %. The solution lies in re-distribution. There […]