Deregulation
Reuters: Amazon workers protest at some German, French sites on Black Friday
Amazon strikes in more than 30 countries part of ‘Make Amazon Pay initiative’. Read the article HERE.
Deregulation
Deregulation
GPEnewsdocs – Richard Kozul-Wright: Repairing a fractured world economy?
The current state of global economic disorder, as presented in UNCTAD’s Trade and Development Report, and possibilities and limits of effective regional responses. Richard Kozul-Wright is Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies […]
Deregulation
Ann Pettifor: The Sudden Paralysis of the System
Messing with a Marvellously Intricate and Fragile Global Financial System Read Here With acknowledgement to the artist, Daniel Agdag
Climate Crisis
Yanis Varoufakis – Why energy markets should be dismantled, especially during and after the war in Ukraine
We look at how the Ukraine war is contributing to an energy crisis across Europe with Greek politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis. Last week Russia announced it would not resume sending natural gas to Europe […]
Deregulation
Prabir Purkayastha: Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’
The design of electricity markets in Europe was inspired by Pinochet’s Chilean neoliberal dictatorship, which even put “marginal price” in the constitution. It’s time to bury the neoliberal experiment for good. This article was produced […]
Austerity
ODR Team – Ukraine’s anti-worker law comes into effect
Law 5371, which strips back labour protections, has been ratified. Is there more to come? Cross-posted from Open Democracy On 17 August, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyi ratified Law 5371, which removes rights for workers at […]
Deregulation
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is it time to revert to more state ownership?
It’s a question being asked more and more. How many of the things that we privatised should be brought back under state control, as energy companies record massive profits, yet those on low incomes are […]
Austerity
Ben Wray – All of the Eurozone’s deep contradictions are now exposed in Italy
If Italy was a light, it would be red and flashing. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S Gig Economy Project Photo: World Economic Forum licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike […]
Climate Crisis
Vicky Cann – Exploiting the Ukraine crisis for Big Business
Unbelievable! EU corporations lying, cheating, and bribing to increase their profits. Vicky Cann is a Researcher and campaigner at Corporate Europe Observatory Cross-posted from Corporate Europe Observatory Business interests are never shy in their opposition […]
Austerity
Steve Keen on the Lex Fridman Podcast: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics
Lex is the master of the long form interview, and this three and a half hour conversation dived extremely deeply into my analysis of economics. It took me a while to appreciate that what Lex […]