Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Ten years after Lehmans, it’s as if we’ve learned nothing from the crash
Claims that the finance sector brings jobs and revenue were exposed as a sham – and the rest of us inherited a legacy of debt Read here
Neo-Liberalism in the EU
Austerity
Huffington Post – Austerity Bites: Westminster Is Brexit Blind But Across The Country People Are Struggling With More Tangible Problems
They just dont learn. At the end the coporate media mentality wins the day. Read here
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: The Three Tribes of Austerity
Who were the three groups that deoivered austerity to the West? Read here
Economics
Larry Elliot: Ten years after the financial crash, the timid left should be full of regrets
Larry Elliot´s analysis is somewhat short-sighted. The mainstream media played a crucial role in keeping many critical voices and opinions out the discourse. We see this daily as the newspaper where Elliot writes, the Guardian. […]
Austerity
Abby Innes – The dismantling of the State since the 1980s: Brexit is the wrong diagnosis of a real crisis
Abby Innes writes that the vote to leave the EU and the administrative chaos around it pull into focus the crisis we should have been talking about before: the failures of homegrown neoliberal policies and […]
Deregulation
Sergio Cesaratto – Democratic sovereignty and genuine internationalism
Sergio Cesaratto looks at why national sovereignity has been so easily hijacked by the right and and needs to be taken back by the left. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics and […]
Austerity
Kostas Kalloniatis – Greece: 10 unscientific slips of a left-wing critique
In his article Kostas Kalloniatis argues that the situation in Greece not as bad as claimed by Sergio Cesaratto and Stavros Mavroudeas in their article “Revelli, SYRIZA and Render unto Caesar the things that are […]
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: Greece was never bailed out – it remains a debtor’s prison and the EU won’t let go of the keys
It is odd that the EU still is trying to maintain its lie of “We saved Greece”. How can the EU lead Europe when it has lost all moral authority? Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Public infrastructure investment must privilege public well-being over profit
The whole machinery of public procurement that has emerged in this neoliberal era needs to be abandoned and replaced with decision-making processes and rules that privilege the advancement of public well-being over profit. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Reclaiming our sense of collective and community – Part 1
That ‘naturalisation’ of concepts and theories that are manifestly wrong in terms of how they represent our reality are reinforced by the set of myths that go to the core of mainstream macroeconomics. Read here