Economics
Globalisation
Austerity
Taking Back Control? – States and State Systems After Globalism by Wolfgang Streeck
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose It is difficult to believe that it is just over thirty years since the establishment of the unipolar world under the US, the end of history, and the victory […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Cloud Capital vs AI: DeepSeek, Technofeudalism, Capitalism and the New Cold War
What does Deepseek tell us about the relationship between the tech oligarchy and market competition? Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist and politician. A former academic, he served as the Greek Minister of Finance from […]
Finance
Heinrich Neuhaus – Germany: Alstom, staff cuts, closures, relocation
More signs of Germany de-industrialising, leaving thousands of workers in search of decent jobs. In ‘International Viewpoint’. Read the full article HERE.
Economics
Branko Milanović – How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles
As neoliberal principles are abandoned, so is any conception of a set of global economic rules which serves everyone. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: […]
Economics
Geopolitics
Dominik A. Leusder – US Trade Policy Toward China Endangers the Green Transition
‘Last week, China responded to new US tariffs with a ban on exporting rare earth minerals. While both countries’ leaders engage in great power rivalry, they risk imperiling the green transition, which will rely on […]
Austerity
Wolfgang Streeck – Capitalism: Home Alone
Excerpt from Wolfgang Streeck’s book that appears this week, “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”, London and New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 108-21 ISBN-13: 978-18397767296 Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior […]
Climate Crisis
Reuters – Ford to cut European jobs as EV shift, Chinese rivals take toll
The loss of 4,000 automanufacturing jobs, primarily in the UK and Germany, is just the latest body blow to the automobile sector in Europe. Read the article HERE.
Finance
Frédéric Fréry – Volkswagen: the end of a German industrial myth?
Volkswagen is Germany’s largest private-sector employer, but it now faces a mammoth crisis which was partly self-inflicted. Frédéric Fréry is professor of Strategy at CentraleSupélec, ESCP Business School. Cross-posted from The Conversation In late October 2024, […]