After months in a kind of stand-off, the Catalan independence movement will return to the streets this Friday. The holding of a Spanish cabinet meeting in Barcelona – planned weeks ago – comes at a new moment of tension between the independence movement and the Spanish government.
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
Grace Blakely: The British high street crisis is due to debt, not Brexit
With British household debt reaching a new high, it did not really need an ecnonomist to explain this. But in this time of Brexit hysteria the obvious becomes arcane and the ridiculous becomes a story […]
Economics
Quinn Slobodian: «Aus neoliberaler Sicht geht es darum, dass die Demokratie nicht die ökonomische Ordnung beschädigen kann»
Der Historiker Quinn Slobodian hat «Globalisten» geschrieben, eine Geschichte des Neoliberalismus, die brandaktuell ist. Woher kommt der Begriff? Was sagt er aus? Und was haben SVP und AfD damit zu tun? Read here
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