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Frances Coppola – Financial Hurricanes
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
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Climate Crisis
Paul Brown – Pyrenees pipeline veto is setback for gas
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 […]
EU politics
Aleks Szczerbiak – Is Robert Biedroń the Polish left’s saviour?
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 […]
Economics
Norbert Häring – How monetary union is sacrificed on the altar of competitiveness
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 […]
EU politics
Chris Bambery – Catalonia: Justice, human rights, and democracy are not among the Four Freedoms of the EU
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 […]
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Reuters: Portuguese parliament widens residency scheme with ‘green visas’
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 […]
Finance
Tim Wu – “It’s Crucial to Break Up Facebook”
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 […]
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Heiner Flassbeck – The debtor is always guilty
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 […]
Austerity
Real News Network – Ada Colau: When Activists Take Over City Hall: The Case of Barcelona, Spain
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 […]
Climate Crisis
Tax Justice Network: Podast December 2018
In edition 84 of the December 2018 Tax Justice Network’s monthly podcast/radio show, the Taxcast: time’s running out to tackle the climate crisis facing us all. We look at environmental taxes and making them fair, […]