Finance
Steve Keen at the OECD: Can we avoid another economic crisis?
Steve Keen’s presentation to the OECD New Approaches to Economic Challenges forum. Watch here
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Climate Crisis
DeSmog UK – European Parliament: Say No to Fossil Fuel Lobbying at International Climate Talks
We shall see what becomes of this. Read here
EU politics
The Independent: Emmanuel Macron branded ‘hero of the rich’ for cutting taxes for the wealthiest in new French budget
Emmanuel Macron seems to be pushing through a neo-liberal policy that once again enriches the few and immiserates the many. What else is new in the European Union? Read here
Environment
Stewart Lansley – Citizens’ wealth funds
Since 2008, the question of inequality has moved up the political agenda. This rising concern has yet to translate into policy action. The UK continues to sit towards the top of the global inequality league, […]
Austerity
Joe Earle, Cahal Moran and Zach Ward-Perkins – The Econocracy: On the perils of leaving economics to the experts
Book review by Mathew D. Rose I remember as a student at the history department of the University of California at Berkeley in the 1970s the first time a member of the teaching staff appeared […]
Corruption
Corporate European Observatory – Two years after Dieselgate: car industry still drives Berlin and Brussels
In Germany the car industry rules the land and the main political parties, who receive millions each year from the car makers.. German citizens in cities simply have to accept being poisoned. Its all for […]
EU politics
The Herald (Scotland): Nicola Sturgeon was right to call on Mariano Rajoy to follow the “the shining example” of the Edinburgh Agreement in Spain
Iain Macwhirter reflects upon the importance of Scotland’s Independence Referendum of 2014 for Scottish democracy. The current policy of the Spanish government with regard to the Catalan referendum has nothing to do with today’s Europe. […]
Austerity
Editorial – Why BRAVE NEW EUROPE?
Why BRAVE NEW EUROPE? Expertise with a radical face When the European integration project was being constructed during the Cold War it was easy enough to present it as a bulwark of peace, cooperation and […]
EU politics
Chris Dillow – Stumbling and Mumbling: Corbyn’s success: centrists’ failure
Dillow cites the creation of a proletarianized professional cadre as a political game changer in the UK Read here
EU politics
Karl Brenke – European Union youth unemployment is hardly decreasing
The EU Commission is claiming success in reducing the number of jobless young people in the European Union. A closer look at the statistics reveals that the situation is anything but positive. Karl Brenke […]