Deregulation
Bill Mitchell: Financial services agreements – the EU as a neoliberal, corporatist project
Bill Mitchell on one of the EU´s current neo-liberal mega projects: TISA (“Trade in Services Agreement”). Read here
Deregulation
Austerity
Pavlos Roufos – A deep look into Greece’s bottomless debt crisis
Writer Pavlos Roufos reviews eight years of managed disaster for Greece under Europe’s austerity regime – from the roots of the crisis in both internal politics and international finance, to the perverse structure of EU-imposed […]
Corruption
Sergi Cutillas and Josep Vendrell – Forensic analysis of the Spanish financial crisis
We admit this is a very long read, but it does explain very well the property crash in Spain, the corruption in Spanish banks, and how they too capitalised on the crisis to increase their […]
Austerity
The Left Case Against the EU by Costas Lapavitsas
Book review by Mathew D. Rose Do you have a feeling something is going seriously wrong in the EU with the rise of neo-fascism, inequality, and power of corporations, but cannot quite put your finger […]
Austerity
Dead Pundits Society – Socialize Finance! with Grace Blakeley
Joining Dead Pundtis Society this week to discuss the dynamics of neoliberal finance (without boring the shit out of you) is Grace Blakeley. We open the show by talking about The World Transformed conference that […]
Deregulation
Jeremy Smith – The slowing economy of the Single Market and NAFTA era
This may not be the simplest of reads, but the analyses is fascinating regarding international trade agreements: “In assessing the impact of the Single Market and NAFTA on the 10 countries looked at, we can […]
Deregulation
Quinn Slobodian/Mark Blyth – Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Mark Blyth interviews Quinn Slobodian. Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history [www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979529] of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire […]
Austerity
Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian – Neoliberalism’s New World Order
Begins at about 16:00. Join Adam Tooze, Quinn Slobodian, and Atossa Araxia Abrahamian for a special discussion on neoliberalism, globalization, and the future of democracy Adam Tooze will be holding talks in Berlin on 28 […]
Deregulation
Film – The Spider´s Web
This is the English version. Watch the French language version – La Toile d’Araignée here Watch the Italian language version – La Tela del Ragno here Watch the Spanish language version – La Telerana here We […]
Austerity
Daniel Brett – Why Romania’s protests have failed to bring about real change
Romania has experienced large anti-government protests on multiple occasions in the last few years, most recently in August this year. Yet as Daniel Brett explains, the achievements of these protests have been modest and short-lived, […]