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Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
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Yanis Varoufakis – Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so?
“At the Cambridge Union on 7th November 2019 Yanis Varoufakis smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic cool iconoclasm – he has ‘zero respect for economists’ […]
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Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated
When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]
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Guy Standing – Rentier Capitalism is Breeding Neo-Fascism
Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society. Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social […]
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Branko Milanović – Chile: The Poster Boy of Neo-liberalism Who Fell From Grace
Hayek was enamoured by Pinochet and the neo-liberal regimen he installed in Chile based upon the teachings of Hayek and his allies – and of course of the intervention of the USA. This is something […]
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The Local no: Strike leaves Norway’s trains at a standstill: here are your rights as a passenger
The industrial action, which began at 12pm on Thursday and was scheduled to continue until 2pm, is in protest at EU rail regulations. Read here
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Costas Lapavitsas – Learning from Brexit
We have avoided the topic of Brexit, but when the most eloquent and convincing proponent of Lexit writes something on the topic – and this is a lengthy article – it is well worth reading, […]
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VoxEU – Libra: A dramatic call to regulatory action
Facebook’s impending new currency, Libra, could facilitate criminal exploitation of the payments system, while reducing the authorities’ ability to monitor and mitigate systemic risk. This article is part of a VoxEU debate on the future […]
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Prem Sikka: What does the ‘free market’ really mean?
Forget the hype of free markets. Neoliberals don’t believe in them. They have mobilized the state to extract cash from people; abuse consumers; erect barriers to collect monopoly rents; dodge any social responsibility and public […]
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Renegade Inc with Grace Blakeley,James Meadway – Thatcher’s Museum: Are we living in it?
Margaret Thatcher is undoubtedly one of the most divisive characters in British political history. But whatever you think of her, she’s a woman whose economic policies have had repercussions that are felt today. She will […]