Austerity
John Weeks – Austerity
John Weeks explains why one does not need an economist to understand economics, why austerity in Britain was and is unnecessary, the importance of gilts in a society, and lots more.
Tax
Economics
Ann Pettifor – Do tax revenues finance government spending?
No. There are a number of misconceptions of how state finances function. In this piece Ann Pettifor adresses one of these: why taxes are not used for spending. Ann Pettifor – Economist, director of Policy […]
Corruption
Nicholas Shaxson – How to Crack Down on Tax Havens: Start With the Banks
Nick Shaxson provides a good introduction to the opaque world of tax havens. Read here
Corruption
Tax Justice Network – The 2018 Financial Secrecy Index
The Financial Secrecy index is a politically neutral ranking, the only one available to aid genuine understanding of global financial secrecy, tax havens or secrecy jurisdictions, and illicit financial flows or capital flight.
Climate Crisis
Will big business destroy our planet? By Peter Dauvergne
Book review by Kieran Cooke Big business says it’s leading the world to a sustainable future. But a new book says that’s a highly implausible claim. Transnational corporations, or TNCs, or just plain big business, […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – ICRICT ‘roadmap’ for taxing multinationals
Tax evasion is not going away. Transnational agencies seem to have little interest in implementing rules and laws to change this. The ICRICT makes cocnrete proposals for the next step in the fight against tay […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – Modern monetary theory in a nutshell
Here is something to mull over on the weekend. BRAVE NEW EUROPE features a number of authors who are proponents of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). We consider it an extremely important idea and shall continue […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular
Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]
Economics
The Resoution Foundation – How to solve the UK’s growing wealth gaps
It’s about inequality, stupid! Inequaltiy is without a doubt the most pressing economic issue of our day, as is climate change for our planet. By Torsten Bell, Director of the Resolution Foundation Cross-posted from the […]
Economics
Richard Murphy – The feral economy
There are two economies out there. One is very dangerous: the feral economy. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political Economy, City University of London. He campaigns on issues of tax avoidance and […]