Austerity
Servaas Storm: Collateral Damage From Higher Interest Rates
A long but excellent article concerning the effects of rising interest rates Read Here
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Finance
Phillip Cunliffe, Peter Ramsay – Whatever Happened to the National Interest?
British and European political elites no longer rely on the national interest to justify their policies or their rule because they no longer make any real claim to represent the nation. Philip Cunliffe is Associate […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow – The austerity choice
Austerity: Coming soon to the EU nation nearest you. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the End of […]
Austerity
Richard D. Wolff: A Deficit Spending Scam Destroyed UK’s Prime Minister – Who’s Next?
Why the British Conservative Party failed so miserably with its neo-liberal “Mini-Budget”, the principles of which had always worked before. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and […]
Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: It makes no economic sense to keep shrinking the state without changing what the state is meant to do
Shrinking the state makes everyone worse off by reducing national income – some of that income loss in the past has probably become permanent Read Here Wikimedia Commons
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 […]
Austerity
Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Ready for Austerity 2.0?
With big-spending Boris gone, Britain’s new Prime Minister will almost certainly promote austerity 2.0, under the guise of fiscal conservatism. He won’t be alone in that, with governments the world over trying to reduce the […]
Economics
Chris Dillow – The cost-cutting error
This is such an important economic principle to understand. A must read. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and […]
Austerity
Frances Coppola – When Populism Fails
Although macroeconomic populism failed on Truss’s watch, she was neither its source nor its principal architect – that was Boris Johnson. And the source was George Osborne. [This prescient article was written before Truss’s resignation] Frances […]
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Marco D’Eramo: Scientific capitalism
Money was previously a side-affect of scientific inquiry, whereas in the neoliberal era it is its main purpose. Read the article HERE.