The World Bank’s ‘Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains’
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Corruption
ICIJ: Seven EU Countries Labeled ‘Tax Havens’ in Parliament Report
A committee of the European Parliament has found that seven of the European Union’s own member states — including Ireland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg — behave like tax havens. Read here
Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Should we worry about temporarily raising government debt?
This is truly an historical article. Simon Wren-Lewis has written a blog without mentioning Brexit – and its a good one. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Tax cuts are unlikely to work at present and are less effective than government spending increases
A short lesson in macroeconomics Read here
Quote from this article ‘Since the 1980s there has bee a widespread rise in firms’ profits’. This does not seem to square with the falling profits contention of Michael Roberts, in his prediction of the next crash. Can someone please explain the apparent contradiction?