Austerity
Michael Roberts – The State of Capitalism
“The State of Capitalism is an exercise in hard analysis and there is much to learn and debate. In that sense, the book is a must read…” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]
Deregulation
Deregulation
Yanis Varoufakis: The EU cartel was designed to crush farmers – Rural workers didn’t stand a chance
Manos, a sixth-generation farmer from Thessaly, put it to me bluntly when I asked him to explain why he was prepared to drive his tractor 400km to Athens to camp outside Parliament: “If I don’t, […]
Austerity
John Feffer – How Can Workers Ensure the ‘Just Transition’ Is Truly Just?
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the table negotiating the transition, the process has a greater chance of being equitable […]
Austerity
Thomas Fazi: Jacques Delors destroyed the European Left
By the time the Delors Commission came to an end, in 1995, much of the groundwork for the techno-authoritarian and anti-democratic juggernaut that the EU would later become was laid — and, to a large […]
Austerity
The Richer, The Poorer: How Britain Enriched The Few and Failed the Poor – A Two Hundred Year History by Stewart Lansley
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Michael Hudson is one of the most brilliant political economists of our time. In his prodigious and prolific thinking one often encounters a thought, many just one sentence, that […]
Austerity
The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by Costas Lapavitsas and the EReNSEP Writing Collective
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Upon finishing The State of Capitalism: Economy, Society, and Hegemony by SOAS economics professor Costas Lapavitsas and the other ten members of the EReNSEP Writing Collective my question was: […]
Austerity
Steve Keen, Michael Hudson – Economists as Hired Guns
How Finance Capitalism Ruined the World 13. November 2023 from the podcast demystifysci Michael Hudson is an American economist, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City and a researcher at the Levy Economics […]
Deregulation
Alexandra Hall: The technopopulist rendezvous – how freeports undermine local democracy
Freeports are a case study in technopopulism: a politics claiming to represent the people against elites by giving old neoliberal ideas a new gloss of paint. Alexandra Hall is an Associate Professor in the Department […]
Climate Crisis
Tatyana Novikova – Rare Earth Mining: Sacrificing the Environment to Save the Planet?
The EU Critical Raw Materials Act, supposedly motivated by concern over climate change, may perversely have been about overriding environmental regulations at the national level. Tatyana Novikova reports on issues of nuclear power and sustainable […]
Deregulation
Eleni Stamatoukou: Greek ‘Towel Movement’ Seeks to Reclaim Beaches
A growing number of Greeks are taking to the streets to demand the restoration of free public access to the country’s beaches as enshrined in the law. Published in ‘Balkan Insight’. Read the article HERE.