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Mark Blyth – Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas
Informative as well as entertaining
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
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red pepper: The trouble with being both anti-austerity and pro-EU
It appears that the left in Britain is waking up to the fact that the EU is just as neo-liberal as the Tories and Brexiteers at home. Also see Emma Clancy – Eurozone’s architects opt […]
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Larry Elliot: Attacks on McDonnell a sign Tories know stance on borrowing is defunct
Obsession with debt reduction has been disastrous and arguments against a borrow-to-invest approach no longer pass muster Read here
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Owen Jones: Don’t let the Tories fool you: we must borrow to invest
Here once again are most of the arguments for ending austerity and investing in the UK’s future and its people. The logic is valid for most EU nations. Read here Please see Simon Wren-Lewis on […]
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The Guardian: More UK children homeless or in temporary housing than during crash crisis
While the Conservative government continues unperturbed its austerity programme the dramatic consequences for society are becoming increasingly visible. The tragedy is that behind all these neutral numbers there are real human beings. Read here
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures
Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]
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The Guardian: UK government warned over sharp rise in child and pensioner poverty
One in five of the population of the UK live in poverty – this includes 8 million working-age adults, 4 million children and 1.9 million pensioners. The not surprising news is that much worse is […]
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Danny Dorling and Stuart Gietel-Basten – Life expectancy in Britain has fallen so much that a million years of life could disappear by 2058 – why?
Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have stressed the violence of austerity. In 2013 David Stuckler and Sanjy Basu wrote a convincing book entitled “The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills” concerning the short […]
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Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy
A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here