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ReSolve Riffs with Steve Keen on MMT, Limits to Growth, and Climate Accounting
Steve Keen is a Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & Security, UCL
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Bill Mitchell – Keynes on national self-sufficiency
One of the emerging discussions is what will the post-coronavirus world look like both within nations and across nations. There is a growing thread about the worries of increased state authoritarianism as governments have imposed […]
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Bill Mitchell: Tunisia is a classic example of the failed IMF/World Bank development model
The IMF and World Bank, destroyers of developing nations. Read here
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Muhammad Ali Nasir – Four reasons why EU is staring down the barrel of a second lost decade
Rolling the dix. Imelda, CC BY-SA Muhammad Ali Nasir, University of Huddersfield The eurozone’s latest economic growth figures are a little better than expected. This group of 19 EU nations grew 2.2% in the second […]
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Alfredo Saad-Filho – From Pandemic with Neoliberal Characteristics to Social Conflict
There is no doubting that the pandemic has had a major impact on global capitalism. But what can we say about the new course of the system? Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that the shift away from […]
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Prabhat Patnaik – Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance. Read here
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Richard Murphy – The debt fetishists are back in town – demanding that we shrink the state for reasons that they cannot explain
They’re raising their ugly heads again. The disciples of austerity. The damage they did last time round is hardly forgotten and the next round is on its way. Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. […]
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141 Economists and 1 Historian – It’s time Europe stopped fetishising fiscal discipline
We should prioritise more important outcomes – like creating well-paid green jobs and lifting millions out of poverty To view the list of participants go here Cross-posted from the New Economics Foundation Contrary to the […]
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Jonas Elvander – Interview with Costas Lapavitsas and Nicolás Águila: Central banks at the heart of economic activity
There have been major changes in some economic paradigms. What are these, why did they occur, and what are the consequences? Costas Lapavitsas is a professor of political economy at the SOAS University of London […]
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Quinn Slobodian – Hayek’s Bastards: The Populist Right’s Neoliberal Roots
Much of the media has framed the populist right as a backlash against neoliberalism – but they share common roots in the project to defend social hierarchies against the threat of equality. Read here