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Thomas Piketty – Parcoursup: could do better
Inequality in French higher education. Between austerity and opacity, it is difficult to create a truly effective system of higher education. Read here
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular
Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]
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Women’s Budget Group et al – Intersecting inequalities: The impact of austerity on Black and Minority Ethnic women in the UK
Britain’s prime minister Theresa May had promised to end the “burning injustice of inequality”. Little has changed for the poor, women, and minorities. By The Women’s Budget Group, Coventry Women’s Voices, Runnymede Trust, and RECLAIM […]
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John Weeks – Free markets & the decline of democracy
This is a long piece, but we felt it was worthy of being posted in its entirety. John Weeks is Professor Emeritus at SOAS, University of London, and associate of Prime Economics On 5th January 2018, […]
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Lina Gálvez – Dying in solitude
Austerity also means isolation. It is not only causing a breakdown in vital social services, but also in family structures and communities. Lina Gálvez is Professor of Economic History and Gender Studies at Pablo de […]
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Aditya Chakrabortty – The Alternatives: how Preston took back control
How globalisation can be stopped while communities flourish Listen here
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Yanis Varoufakis – How Failing Institutions Boost Inequality
A short lecture concerning the absurdities encountered by Yanis Varoufakis during his stint as Finance Minister of Greece and the grave consequences they had.
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Aditya Chakrabortty: Why do we let greedy financiers profit from the pain of foster children?
Privatisation is destroying our society. Once again Aditya Chakrabortty takes a tiny sliver of society and shows how the “free market” is destroying everything it touches, be it people or environment. Profit is all that […]
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Bill Mitchell: Greece – the next bailout is just around the corner
Greece has disappeared from the headlines, but its disastrous economic state has changed little. Bill Mitchell looks at the nation that purportedly turned the corner. Read here
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Jihen Chandoul: The IMF has choked Tunisia. No wonder the people are protesting
The IMF claims to have learnt from its mistakes and writes lovely papers criticising its own policies of the past. Still they have not swerved an inch from their traditional policy of brutal austerity. Read […]