Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Privatisation
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis – Why is economics not a force for good and what must we do to make it so?
“At the Cambridge Union on 7th November 2019 Yanis Varoufakis smashed the academic boundary walls of economics in style. His critical principles come from his characteristic cool iconoclasm – he has ‘zero respect for economists’ […]
Austerity
Robin McAlpine: Stop Feigning Confusion at Public Ownership; it’s not Complicated
When one reads an article like this, it becomes painfully clear how bankrupt Europe’s political class is. While politicians pretend they are the high priests of complicated truths, which we daily realise are lies, we […]
Economics
Juan Laborda – Chile, the Beginning of the End of Neo-liberalism
Yes, Chile is very far from Europe, but this has to do with something very big. We are seeing repeated tremors, ever stronger, in reaction to neo-liberalism. Juan Laborda teaches Financial Economics at the University […]
Austerity
Branko Milanović – Chile: The Poster Boy of Neo-liberalism Who Fell From Grace
Hayek was enamoured by Pinochet and the neo-liberal regimen he installed in Chile based upon the teachings of Hayek and his allies – and of course of the intervention of the USA. This is something […]
Deregulation
The Local no: Strike leaves Norway’s trains at a standstill: here are your rights as a passenger
The industrial action, which began at 12pm on Thursday and was scheduled to continue until 2pm, is in protest at EU rail regulations. Read here
EU politics
Nick Shaxson – How Financialisation Worsens Britain’s Regional Divides
At the end of the day “financialisation” means wealth extraction. Nick Shaxson explains on hand of a police training centre near Glasgow in Scotland. Nick Shaxson is an Investigative Journalist and author of “Treasure Islands”. […]
Austerity
Renegade Inc with Grace Blakeley,James Meadway – Thatcher’s Museum: Are we living in it?
Margaret Thatcher is undoubtedly one of the most divisive characters in British political history. But whatever you think of her, she’s a woman whose economic policies have had repercussions that are felt today. She will […]
Austerity
The Real News Network: David Harvey – The Persistence of Neoliberalism Despite its Loss of Legitimacy
Neoliberalism continues in national and transnational institutions, even though it has lost legitimacy as an ideology and has even penetrated progressive thinking, argues Prof. David Harvey Part 1 Part 2
Austerity
Yanis Varoufakis: How Syriza’s capitulations allowed the Greek right to escape the dustbin of history
The left-wing party’s embrace of austerity created the conditions for a parasitic and cruel oligarchy to return. Read here