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Sergio Cesaratto – Democratic sovereignty and genuine internationalism

August 28, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Bill Mitchell: Public infrastructure investment must privilege public well-being over profit

August 24, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

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

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Austerity

Aditya Chakrabortty: These councils smashed themselves to bits. Who will pick up the pieces?

August 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Experts saw it coming – it was inevitable: The neo-liberal discourse that private is better. It is pernicious. The question is when the British will stop voting for Tory ideology and hoping a fairytale will […]

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Bill Mitchell – Build it in Britain is just sensible logic

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

On Tuesday Jeremy Corbyn gave a speech announcing plans to change the way the British government spends if he is to be elected: the government would prioritise British producers. Here is Bill Mitchell´s take on […]

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Miriam Stewart – Leaking water, draining finance: the case for putting water in public hands

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In the middle of a heatwave and drought, it’s not just the leakage allowed by private water companies (as much as  people actually use), but the money they drain from a vital piece of our […]

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Austerity

Forbes: Amazon Should Replace Local Libraries to Save Taxpayers Money

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Heard this sort of thing before? Public libraries became an important element of the Commons and democracy. They too are to become commodities. See where that ends (click here) This article was such a bloody […]

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Corruption

This is Money: Fury at United Utilities as it pays £180m dividend while planning to impose a hosepipe ban on customers

July 23, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the sort of predatory capitalism being promoted by the EU neo-liberalism. Utilities should be privatised as the private sector is “more efficient”. This is just half the story. In the end the state […]

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Austerity

Bill Mitchell: The abdication of the Left – redux – Part 1

July 16, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

If you have not yet read  Reclaiming the State: A Progressive Vision of Sovereignty for a Post-Neoliberal World   by Thomas Fazi and Bill Mitchell – a book one should definitely read – then here is a […]

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Austerity

Zoe Konstantopoulou: If you love Greece, help us get rid of Alexis Tsipras and his zombie party

July 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

This was a long time coming, but finally this discourse has transceded the Greek borders. Read here

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Economics

Abby Innes: Why public sector outsourcing is less efficient than Soviet central planning

June 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Since the 1990s, public sector outsourcing has evolved through competitive tendering, partnership working (particularly via Public Finance Initiatives), strategic-commissioning and prime-contracting. Each of these iterations has promised better public goods and services for less cost. […]

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Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine by Avi Shlaim

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Book Review by Hossam el-Hamalawy Avi Shlaim’s Genocide in Gaza: Israel’s Long War on Palestine is a book written in the midst of catastrophe, not after its dust has settled.  It is a work shaped […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

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Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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