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Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
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Michael Mair – A Fight on Their Hands: The Next Wave of UK University Strikes
A year and a half ago there was a major university strike by academics and staff in the UK. They were resisting an attack on their union as well as the financialisation of their pension […]
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Kristen R. Ghodsee, Mitchell A. Orenstein: Revolutions for Whom?
As liberal elites both East and West commemorate the peaceful end of the Cold War and celebrate the successes of the last three decades, it is important to recognize how painful the post-communist transition was […]
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Marshall Auerback – Not-So-‘Super’ Mario: the Departure of ECB President Mario Draghi
Another, not so flattering, take on Mario Draghi’s legacy as head of the European Central Bank. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and a research associate at the Levy Institute for Economics at Bard College […]
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LETA100: Latvian Healthcare workers to organize “A Day without a Doctor” in protest against insufficient healthcare financing
As far as the eye can see in the EU: Austerity Read here
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Branko Milanović – Chile: The Poster Boy of Neo-liberalism Who Fell From Grace
Hayek was enamoured by Pinochet and the neo-liberal regimen he installed in Chile based upon the teachings of Hayek and his allies – and of course of the intervention of the USA. This is something […]
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Diego Borja Cornejo, Sergi Cutillas – Still Another Brutal IMF Intervention in Ecuador
Many economist have been claiming that the International Monetary Fund has learned from its past mistakes, especially as it has recently published papers pointing this out and promising change. Change however never comes, as we […]
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Mathew D. Rose – Angela Merkel: From “Mummy” to “The Mummy”
Germany is being run by zombie parties, led by a chancellor who is oblivious to the political reality of her nation, Europe, and the world. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised […]
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J.W. Mason, Arjun Jayadev: The Crash of Austerity Economics
Reality keeps contradicting the sponsors of economic pain, but they keep dispensing their perverse advice. Read here
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Costas Lapavitsas – Learning from Brexit
We have avoided the topic of Brexit, but when the most eloquent and convincing proponent of Lexit writes something on the topic – and this is a lengthy article – it is well worth reading, […]