The gap between the very rich and the rest is wider in Britain than in any other large country in Europe, and society is the most unequal it has been since shortly after the First World War. But is great change coming?
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Austerity
Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular
Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Fiscal policy paralysis and ECB credibility in tatters
Last week, the EU finance ministers (the ‘Eurogroup’) met (June 13, 2019) in Luxembourg as part of their regular schedule. There was a lot of talk in the lead-up to the meeting whether Emmanual Macron’s […]
Austerity
George Monbiot: Look to Sheffield: this is how state and corporate power subverts democracy
The destructiveness and reach of neo-liberalism is made clear in this piece by George Monbiot. It is a question of felling some trees in the city of Sheffield in the UK, but one can see […]
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