While the UK Conservatives continue to bicker and infight over post-EU Britain, the Brussels ship continues to sink. CommonSpace examines major political developments on the Continent.
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EU politics
Thomas Piketty – The difficult return of the left-right divide
Is Le Pen on the way to electoral victory? Read Here Photo: Jérémy-Günther-Heinz Jähnick Wikimedia Commons / GFDL-1.2
Finance
Simon Wren-Lewis – Economists: too much ideology, too little craft
For all its claims of being a science, Wren-Lewis, borrowing from Dani Rodrik, sees economics also as a craft: ” If you do not apply the craft well, then what can replace it is ideology, […]
Economics
Phillip Inman: Household debt in UK ‘worse than at any time on record’
The classic question in economics is: If capitalists pay their workers too little, who is going to buy the capitalists’ products. Here is the answer. The same workers, who have to borrow from the banks, […]
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