Austerity
The Guardian: Families thousands of pounds worse off after years of cuts, study finds
Still another report confirming that austerity targets those most vulnerable in society. Better yet, children cannot vote. Read here
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Austerity
The Guardian: Child poverty in Britain set to soar to new record, says thinktank
Following Gremany’s increase in child poverty, the United Kingdom seems set to follow. Austerity effects those most vulnerable and without a weak voice. Children cannot even vote. This is no coincidence, this is neo-liberalism. Read […]
Deregulation
Renegade Inc: Michael Hudson – J is for Junk Economics
Michael Hudson on neo-classical economics and neo-liberalism. Watch here
Deregulation
Anat Admati: Seeing through “the banker’s new clothes”
Anat R. Admati holds a bachelor’s degree from Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a doctorate from Yale University, and is a professor of finance and economics at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Her recent […]
EU politics
Investigate Europe – Europe’s new reserve army
Millions of Europeans in temporary, part-time or bogus self-employed contracts can only find insecure and badly paid jobs, despite the healthy economic climate. That is the price of deregulating labour markets, Investigate Europe reports. This […]
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: A Labour council attacking its own people? This is regeneration gone bad
This is a continuation in our series of articles concerning what neo-liberalism looks like from the ground. This time it concerns a “social housing” project in London. Read here
Austerity
George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy
The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]
Austerity
The Corruption of Capitalism – Why Rentiers Thrive and Work Does Not Pay by Guy Standing
Book review by Mathew D. Rose In 2011 Guy Standing wrote a book titled “The Precariat – The New Dangerous Class”, which showed great prescience. By the second paragraph he had already predicted what would […]
Deregulation
Simon Wren-Lewis: How Neoliberals weaponise the concept of an ideal market
Using Colin Crouch’s new book “Can Neoliberalism Be Saved From Itself” as a starting point, Wren-Lewis re-examines his own definition of neo-liberalism. He comes to the conclusion that neo-liberalism is the misuse of the ideal […]
Austerity
Olivier Tonneau – Macron, Mélenchon and Catalonia: paradoxical realignments
The Catalan referendum is throwing up a number of crucial questions concerning democracy in the European Union. Olivier Tonneau analyses this in the context of France. Olivier Tonneau is Lecturer in modern languages, Homerton College, […]