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Shaun Richards: The Novo Banco saga has been one of misrepresentation and woe

October 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Ín 2014  Portugal’s Central Bank bailed out the Banco Espírito Santo, S.A with 4.4 Billion Euros. Banco Espírito Santo,  was, as so often the case when banks are “saved”, split into a bad bank with all […]

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Mat Hope – How 25 Metres of Country Road Became England’s Fracking Frontline

October 17, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Mat Hope of DeSmog UK travels to Lancashire and reports about the protests against fracking there. By Mat Hope, éditor of DeSmog UK Cross-posted from DeSmog UK     “There’s something happening,” Nick tells me. […]

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David Laws and Charles S. Adams – Is world-leading NHS healthcare an affordable proposition?

October 16, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Richard Murphy – Thoughts on the IMF and World Bank

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Simon Wren-Lewis: How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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UNOG: SWITZERLAND NEEDS TO STEP UP WORK TO CURB ILLICIT FINANCIAL FLOWS – UN EXPERT

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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João Paulo Batalha – Corruption in Portugal: The mighty have fallen – the elite’s day of reckoning

October 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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. […]

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Jason Hickel – Why less is more

October 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Heikki Patomäki – On the conditions of successful social democratic alternatives

October 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Globalisation has ravaged the economies and societies in the industrialised world. Uneven growth and deindustrialisation are causing political turmoil. The left, trapped in a limited territorial state, is likely to fail even if it wins […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

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Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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