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Austerity

Craig Mackay – You Need to Balance Your Own Budget but the Government Doesn’t and Shouldn’t.

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Tory obsession with reducing the deficit with a programme of accelerating austerity is causing increasing harm to the great majority of working people in the UK. By refusing to borrow to invest in infrastructure […]

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Fintan O’Toole: Let’s imagine the homeless have foot-and-mouth

November 7, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Part of neo-liberalism system is to convince us that the abnormal is normal. What we yesterday condemned or found repelling is actually quite alright – normal. Fintan O’Toole iedentifies this process with regard to homelessness […]

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The Guardian: Families thousands of pounds worse off after years of cuts, study finds

November 6, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Still another report confirming that austerity targets those most vulnerable in society. Better yet, children cannot vote. Read here  

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The Guardian: Child poverty in Britain set to soar to new record, says thinktank

November 2, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Following Gremany’s increase in child poverty, the United Kingdom seems set to follow. Austerity effects those most vulnerable and without a weak voice. Children cannot even vote. This is no coincidence, this is neo-liberalism. Read […]

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Aditya Chakrabortty: A Labour council attacking its own people? This is regeneration gone bad

October 26, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is a continuation in our series of articles concerning what neo-liberalism looks like from the ground. This time it concerns a “social housing” project in London. Read here  

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George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]

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The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing

October 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]

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Olivier Tonneau – Macron, Mélenchon and Catalonia: paradoxical realignments

October 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Catalan referendum is throwing up a number of crucial questions concerning democracy in the European Union. Olivier Tonneau analyses this in the context of France. Olivier Tonneau is Lecturer in modern languages, Homerton College, […]

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Richard Murphy – It’s time for the left to promote its own pro-business agenda

October 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

According to Richard Murphy it is time to move on and leave bankrupt neo-liberalism behind. This however means defining progressive goals and the logic behind them. Richard Murphy is Professor of Practice in International Political […]

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Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins – The Econocracy: On the perils of leaving economics to the experts

September 24, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by Mathew D. Rose I remember as a student at the history department of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s the first time a member of the teaching staff appeared […]

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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

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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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