Neo-liberalism can only flourish where democracy is reduced to a minimum, to folklore. The EU is neo-liberal. Thus the European Court of Justice will almost always decide against democracy.
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Economics
Simon Wren-Lewis: The fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism
There is nothing wrong with a free market. There is when it has been corrupted by neo-liberalism resulting in monopolies and crony-capitalism. It then destroys the market, and that is where we currently are. Read […]
EU politics
The Irish Times: Google ramps up the ‘double Irish’ before closing time
‘Google and the other large companies that form part of the global tech vanguard are squeezing every last drop out of the “double Irish, Dutch sandwich” tax-avoidance trick before the loophole is finally closed by […]
Economics
Ellen Brown: Neoliberalism Has Met Its Match in China
This piece puts the US-China trade war in context. It’s part of a long history of aggressive US attempts to dismantle successful state-led developmentalism across the global South. China is the last one standing. Read […]
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