Lucas Chancel Demystifies the Trickle Down Effect Theory
The “Trickle Down Effect Theory” is one of the great neo-liberal scams. It says that the more money the government gives the rich, the more all of us will earn. Why then are we confronted […]
The “Trickle Down Effect Theory” is one of the great neo-liberal scams. It says that the more money the government gives the rich, the more all of us will earn. Why then are we confronted […]
Book review by Eliane Glaser Originally published at Times Higher Education and cross-posted with their kind permission Since the UK referendum on membership of the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as […]
Instead of assuming rational expectations and efficient markets to be right, one ought to confront the hypotheses with the available evidence. It is not enough to construct models. Without strong evidence, all kinds of absurd […]
Every US president since Ronald Reagan has been telling the same myth: Tax gifts for the rich will trickle down to the rest of society. And society has has believed them. But trickle down has […]
This is the introduction for the newly published German edition of Michael Hudson’s book Super Imperialism (Finanzimperialimus) Read here
Book review by David Shirreff The answer is yes. But saving the euro will be immensely difficult, and will require political, ideological and institutional changes. The euro always had serious design flaws. Back in 1989, […]
This is another lengthy piece by Bill Mitchell, but well worth taking the time to read. As he writes: “the problem of tax avoidance and evasion is not fiscal. Progressives get stuck on that point. […]
Out of all the arguments and excuses that people manufacture to justify the financialisation of society, the most difficult one to accept is that creating a market in education is the only way it can […]
Malta contniues its policy of selling citizenship to the rich. To obtain a Maltese passport, which grants the holder full access to the European Union, applicants must pay €650,000 and invest €150,000 in government stocks […]
“Rajoy’s strategy has been spectacularly unnuanced. At every turn, he has scorned the independence movement as no more than a plot “to liquidate our constitution”, a “criminal” conspiracy, and “a clear violation of the laws, […]
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