Austerity
Clara Mattei – The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism
A talk based on Mattei’s recent book with the same title
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Austerity
Chris Dillow: Origins of the Tory implosion
The implosion of the Tory party suggests I was wrong. Read Here
Economics
Jordi Schröder Bosch: How monetary policy fuels housing inequality
Central banks have stoked housing inequality, increasing the wealth of those with assets and depriving those without Cross-posted from Positive Money Europe Housing prices plunged during the global financial crisis. A new cycle of increasing […]
Austerity
Stephanie Kelton: UNCTAD warns of too much tightening
The trade and development department within the UN has published a report warning the advanced economies to “avoid austerity” and “revert course and avoid the temptation to try to bring down prices by relying on […]
Economics
Patrick Kaczmarczyk: Interest rate hikes are not the answer to Europe’s inflation problem
The history of ECB rate hikes is disastrous – there’s little reason to believe it will go any better this time Cross-posted from the LSE EUROPP blog INFLATION rates across the Eurozone are putting the […]
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
Austerity
Jonathan Pie – A Statement of Intent
Jonathan Pie on British Prime Minister Liz Truss and her Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng
Austerity
Robin McAlpine – Children shouldn’t be hungry…
What we are currently witnessing in Britain is the capitalist class unchained. This was not what people who voted for Brexit wanted. It is neo-liberlalsim in its ultima ratio that has been common policy in […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Italy: Lurching to the right
To understand the roots of far-right Brothers of Italy’s likely victory this Sunday [25 September] is to understand the failure of the Eurozone Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog. Italy goes to the polls this Sunday […]
EU-Institutions
Corporate Europe Observatory: Lobbying the EU
A trio of studies examining the “revolving door”, the transparency register, and how much big companies have spent on lobbying the EU Read Here European Commission, Photo Credit: Stephane Mignon