Politically you can ignore some of the people some of the time…but you can’t ignore all the people all of the time. For many years European citizens have intuitively opposed unaccountability, a lack of political […]
This is a talk by Frances Coppola in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau” in Berlin on 13 February 2019. Begins at 1:05
The global gas industry’s prospects will suffer from the Pyrenees pipeline veto imposed by regulators, say opponents of fossil fuel. Paul Brown, a founding editor of Climate News Network, is a former environment correspondent of […]
Poland’s most popular and charismatic left-wing politician’s new initiative has a good chance of achieving short-term success in this year’s elections. But the grouping faces sharp criticism that it is dividing the opposition and playing […]
The European Monetary Union is achieving the opposite ofits stated goals: bring its member states closer to an economic equality. Conspicuously, it is Germany that is benefitting from this contradictory policy. Norbert Häring is a […]
The brutality with which the governments of Spain and France are attacking their citizens has become commonplace in the EU, much as the corpses of refugees floating in the Mediterranean. Justice, human rights, and democracy […]
Before the law, all people should be equal. Thanks to EU austerity and neo-liberalism, laws too have become a commodity, which one can buy, as in the case of Golden Visas. This allows rich foreigners […]
Columbia law professor Tim Wu on The Curse of Bigness, neo-Brandeisian antitrust, and the lessons we should learn from the first Gilded Age. Cross-posted from Pro Market The blog of the Stigler Center at the University […]
In German debt and guilt are the same word: Schuld. So, in Germany, debt has a morally negative connotation. Further, the state budget is referred to as “Haushalt”, which is the word for household. Germans […]
Ada Colau was elected in 2015 as Barcelona’s first woman mayor. Under her leadership Barcelona has increased social spending to historic levels, spearheading initiatives to prevent gentrification by increasing public and social housing, created a […]
Copyright © 2019 | MH Magazine WordPress Theme by MH Themes
