This article provides a good description of what daily austerity looks like in Britain and where its ideological support comes from and functions.
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Emma Dent Coad: Kensington and Chelsea is a microcosm of the evils of austerity
Economics
Clara E. Mattei – Breaking the Economics Discipline’s Austerity Consensus
The Centre for Heterodox Economics has just been launched at a US university. One of its founders’ explains what it’s all about. In ‘Jacobin’. Read the article HERE.
Corruption
Reuters: ECB urged to tighten trading rules for policymakers
Ethics standards at the ECB were never high, but they are showing another low: Top brass of the ECB have investments in companies benefited by ECB bond purchases….ECB urged to tighten trading rules for policymakers […]
EU politics
The Herald – Scotland: Opposing sides unite to condemn Spain’s ‘authoritarian’ behaviour
The Scots have a very strong culture of democracy, justice, and interational solidarity. Let us hope that the Scottish National Party shares these values. Read here
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