Economics
Richard Murphy: CEOs are rigging markets to increase their pay and then sponsor free market mythology to justify their abuse
Rent is a redistribution of resources from those without power to those with it. Read here
Inequality
Finance
Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson – The enemy between us: how inequality erodes our mental health
Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson are professors of epidemiology, co-founders of The Equality Trust, and authors of The Inner Level: How More […]
Corruption
Valerio Alfonso Bruno – Mind the Gap! On the Irreconcilable Distance between Europe´s Social Democrats and the People (and how Populisms filled it)
Europe is witnessing the disappearance of social democratic political parties. Tradition conservative parties are heading inexorably in the same direction. Europe is going through radical changes with regard to parties. The question is if political […]
EU politics
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast for August
In the August 2018 Tax Justice Network monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: Why are so many Bermudians leaving their beautiful island? And why have inequality levels become so extreme despite it’s huge offshore services centre? […]
Economics
New Economics Foundation – Can populism be progressive?
Jeremy Corbyn and Donald Trump; Erdogan in Turkey and the Five Star Movement in Italy; Podemos in Spain and Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines. All of them have been described as populists. But what does […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell: The fundamental realignment of British society via fiscal austerity
Mitchell ‘s conclusion: “It is almost inconceivable that an advanced nation could tolerate the sort of changes that have been occurring in Britain over the last 8 years or so.” Read here
Austerity
John Weeks – Free markets and the decline of democracy
What is the source of the 21st century tendency to authoritarianism? The central purpose of neoliberal re-regulation is to remove economic policy from control by representative democracy. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of […]
Economics
Phillip Inman: Household debt in UK ‘worse than at any time on record’
The classic question in economics is: If capitalists pay their workers too little, who is going to buy the capitalists’ products. Here is the answer. The same workers, who have to borrow from the banks, […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: A post-Brexit economy must aid the losers of financial globalisation
Rather than chastising pro-Leave citizens for “voting against their interests”, the UK’s political class should mend a broken system. Read here
Austerity
Tax Justice Network – A firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby
In the July 2018 Taxcast: we look at a proposal for a firewall to protect EU citizens from the Big Four accountancy firms and the tax avoidance lobby: we look at a new report from […]