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Austerity

The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley

December 19, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]

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The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective

December 4, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 1

Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]

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Amy Brown: Having a single parent doesn’t determine your life chances – the data shows poverty is far more important

November 27, 2023 Ben Wray 0

The right-wing press love to stigmatise single parenting but it’s not backed up by the evidence. Amy Brown is Professor of Child Public Health at Swansea University. Cross-posted from The Conversation Numerous research studies have […]

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Steve Keen, Michael Hudson – Economists as Hired Guns

November 26, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World 13. November 2023 from the podcast demystifysci Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics […]

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Emma Dowling – Rethinking Care: From Privatisation to Solidarity

October 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. Emma Dowling is a sociologist at the University of […]

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Niels Nyholt – How school and hospital closures affect political support

October 4, 2023 Ben Wray 0

A study finds that school closures do move rural communities and the working class away from mainstream parties and towards right-wing populists. Niels Nyholt is a Postdoc in the Department of Political Science at Aarhus […]

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Stewart Lansley – Rethinking ‘Crowding Out’ and the Return of ‘Private Affluence and Public Squalor’

September 28, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The history of ‘crowding out’, and its use as a justification for austerity and state deflation from its origins in the 1920s to its latest post-2010 incarnation Stewart Lansley is Visiting Fellow at the School […]

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Ben Wray – So Far, Britain’s Employers Have Been Winning the Class War Over Inflation

September 25, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Since inflation started rising, British capitalists have been raking in massive profits while workers have suffered a disastrous wage slump. Yet the Bank of England still wants to boost unemployment in case workers develop their […]

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Mathew D. Rose – Europe: Not reading the writing on the wall

September 5, 2023 Mathew D. Rose 0

The “European Malaise” is simply the inability of Europe’s neo-liberal political class to comprehend the current geopolitical and economic reality. Mathew D. Rose is an Investigative Journalist specialised in Organised Political Crime in Germany and […]

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Polykarpos Georgiadis: In Greece, social despair is helping the rise of fascist conspiracy theories

August 28, 2023 Ben Wray 0

Greece’s recent elections saw two new far-right parties enter parliament for the first time. Grinding austerity is not fueling continued popular resistance but the rise of conspiracy theorist cranks who promote war among the poor. […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

June 11, 2026 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

May 8, 2026 0

Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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