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Yanis Varoufakis – Why energy markets should be dismantled, especially during and after the war in Ukraine

September 18, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

We look at how the Ukraine war is contributing to an energy crisis across Europe with Greek politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis. Last week Russia announced it would not resume sending natural gas to Europe […]

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Prabir Purkayastha: Why Our Electricity Prices Can’t Be Left to Bogus ‘Free Markets’

September 16, 2022 Ben Wray 0

The design of electricity markets in Europe was inspired by Pinochet’s Chilean neoliberal dictatorship, which even put “marginal price” in the constitution. It’s time to bury the neoliberal experiment for good. This article was produced […]

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Robin McAlpine: When your political systems are dying, you need new ones

September 4, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Neither post-war social democracy nor globalised neoliberalism are going to come out of the current crisis without being seriously damaged. We need new and innovative forms of governing. Robin McAlpine is the director of the […]

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T. Sabri Öncü: To Loot or Not to Loot? How Public-Private Partnerships Harmed Turkey

August 27, 2022 David Shirreff 0

Without the debt and income guarantees provided by the Turkish government, many of the Turkish PPPs cannot survive bankruptcy. Read Here Photo with thanks to https://pxhere.com/en/photo/661535

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Balkan Green Energy News – Is EU to sacrifice Balkans to secure resources for its energy transition

August 21, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The European Commission wants reliable supply chains for the materials that the EU needs to accelerate the switch to renewable energy sources and a green economy. The extraction of lithium, copper and other necessary commodities, […]

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Steve Keen, Phil Dobbie – Is it time to revert to more state ownership?

August 20, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

It’s a question being asked more and more. How many of the things that we privatised should be brought back under state control, as energy companies record massive profits, yet those on low incomes are […]

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Ben Wray – All of the Eurozone’s deep contradictions are now exposed in Italy

August 2, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

If Italy was a light, it would be red and flashing. Ben Wray is a freelance journalist leading BRAVE NEW EUROPE’S Gig Economy Project Photo: World Economic Forum licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike […]

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Steve Keen on the Lex Fridman Podcast: Marxism, Capitalism, and Economics

July 17, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 1

Lex is the master of the long form interview, and this three and a half hour conversation dived extremely deeply into my analysis of economics. It took me a while to appreciate that what Lex […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – The roots of inflation in the Crash of 2008

July 17, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0
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Seth Schindler, Ilias Alami, Nick Jepson: Who’s in control? Wall Street Consensus, state capitalism, and spatialised industrial policy

July 16, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The apparent contradiction between the Wall Street Consensus and contemporary state capitalism Read Here

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

January 15, 2026 0

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

December 28, 2025 0

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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