Why do people still respect politicians? Or even feel sorry for them even though they work against the public interest and are thoroughly corrupt? Chris Dillow provides some answers.
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Chris Dillow: Biased to the Powerful
Climate Crisis
Thomas Roulet, Joel Bothello: Why “De-growth” Shouldn’t Scare Businesses
The degrowth movement has already begun: at a grassroots level, consumer demand is actively being transformed, despite political and corporate reticence. Read here Daniel Grizelj/Getty Images
Economics
Simon Wren Lewis: Fiscal policy remains in the stone age
Monetary policy is not working and much of the world economy is limping along waiting for the next crisis and recession. Recently we posted an excellent article on the necessity of fiscal policy by John […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck: The International State System after Neoliberalism: Europe between National Democracy and Supranational Centralization
In 1945 Karl Polanyi outlined a vision of a peacetime global state system with a political economy in which small countries could be both sovereign and democratic. The present essay reviews developments between then and […]
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