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Maike Schmidt, Theo Harris – The Private Finance Myth: Why The Market Won’t Solve Europe’s Infrastructure Crisis

July 28, 2026 Ben 0

Using private finance to build public infrastructure is short-sighted and almost always ends up costing the public purse more in the long run. Maike Schmidt is an assistant researcher at the New Economics Foundation and […]

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Environment

Matt Broomfield – Albanians Are Against Jared Kushner’s Israel-Linked Venture

June 8, 2026 Ben 0

The massive resistance in Albania to Jared Kushner’s attempt to destroy one of the country’s island’s is an inspiration. Read the article HERE.

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Finance

Emma Baker, Amy Clair, Mark Stephens – How Britain’s housing crisis contributes to its declining healthy life expectancy

May 4, 2026 Ben 0

Quality of housing is closely linked to health outcomes, and for Britons who rent in the private sector, the quality of housing is shoddy. Emma Baker is Professor of Housing Research at the Australian Centre […]

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Richard Murphy – Economic questions: the Thomas Paine question

November 23, 2025 MDRose 0

Paine is a valuable bridge between moral philosophy and democratic economics as the thinker who insisted that political freedom is meaningless without economic security, and that the legitimacy of any society rests on its willingness […]

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Euronews – Amazon internet service outage highlights EU’s ‘overwhelming reliance on Big Tech’

October 21, 2025 Ben 0

If a Chinese company had gone down and it had knocked out wide sections of Europe’s internet, a continent-wide emergency would have been announced. But when it’s American big tech that goes wrong, there is […]

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Finance

Jonah Schwope, Lena Schröder – Beyond AI Futurism: A Socio-Ecological Vision for AI

October 20, 2025 Ben 0

The AI tech race is well and truly on, and the EU wants to be part of it, but if it only serves the imperatives of capitalism it is going to be worse than useless […]

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Inequality

Guthrie Scrimgeour – You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

September 15, 2025 Ben 0

‘Welcome to the fully privatised city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.’ In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.

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Caitlin Hoyland – The Enclosure of the Commons and the War Economy: A Feminist and Anti-Colonial Critique

August 5, 2025 Ben 0

Does the concept of the commons hold out hope for a world without war? Caitlin Hoyland is a writer and human rights advocate interning with CODEPINK’s Local Peace Economy program. She has written extensively on conflict, […]

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Environment

Emma Belmonte – On Sale for One Euro: Will Albania’s Forests Go Private?

July 1, 2025 Ben 0

We are still living in a time where, whatever the question, the answer of politicians is: privatisation. Emma Belmonte is a freelance journalist with a double specialisation covering Europe and Asia. After gaining expertise in […]

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Claudio Milano, Antonio Paulo Russo, Marina Novelli – The social movement against ‘touristification’ in Barcelona

June 9, 2025 Ben 0

Social movements against the tourist industry’s takeover of cities in Europe are on the rise. Claudio Milano is a Ramon y Cajal Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of […]

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Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations by Christian Christiansen

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Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of […]

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Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World: A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate by Dani Rodrik

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Book Review by Walden Bello Dani Rodrik has impeccable credentials as an economist. He is an expert in many areas, including trade and development, and is one of Harvard University’s leading lights. In recent years, […]

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