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Bill Mitchell – European Union – no democracy, no rule of law, no solidarity, no human rights, no economic miracle!
Bill Mitchell on Perry Anderson’s article “Ever Closer Union” Read here
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
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Bill Mitchell – Political Economy Thought and Praxis Post Pandemic
This is the first in a series of talks by Bill Mitchell presented by the Helsinki Centre for Global Political Economy headed by Heikki Patomäki
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Bill Mitchell – IMF actions in Ecuador expose its venal motivations
The IMF were clearly miffed that their ‘authority’ had been challenged by ordinary citizen movements Read here
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John Treat – Unions: Confronting the Crisis in Social Democracy and “Just Transition”
In order to be effective in stopping the climate crisis unions will have to build alliances with a wide range of progressive social forces around shared commitments. John Treat is a researcher with Trade Unions […]
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Michael Roberts – Biden’s Four Years
A good analysis of the challenges facing the Biden government. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog It’s inauguration day. There is a new president […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Trump Crazy and Intellectual Crazy
At the most basic level, anyone in a policy position is almost always, by definition, on the winning side of the inequality gap. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The pandemic is demonstrating that we can resist neoliberalism
Pierre Bordieu considered the neoliberal era to be one of the significant retrenchments in our civilisation: … the failure of the state as the guardian of the public interest. Read here
Finance
Noam Chomsky, Vijay Prashad – Why Neoliberal Leaders Who Failed to Protect Their Countries From COVID-19 Must Be Investigated
This article is somewhat short sighted. Many governments put business blatantly before their citizens’ health, relaxing controls and creating the second COVID wave. Nations is Asia that did so well in the first wave have […]
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Stuart Medina Miltimore – ¿Y ahora quién tiene la pelota?
Los Fondos de la UE para la Próxima Generación: se ha reintroducido la condicionalidad a través de documentos elaborados por la Comisión Europea no elegida. Stuart Medina Miltimore es economista. Es fundador de la Asociación […]
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Perry Anderson – The Breakaway
Another outstanding article by Perry Anderson concerning the EU Read here