Public ownership isn’t just more effective, it’s more democratic – it’s time to take vital services like rail, mail, energy, and water out of the control of remote CEOs and unaccountable shareholders.
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]
EU politics
ekathimerini-com: EU will examine ‘appropriate’ measures against Turkey over Cyprus
Translated that means the EU will do nothing. Merkel has invested too much money and political reputation that Erdogan stops refugees entering the EU. Erdogan appears to have the EU under control. His real problem […]
Economics
Chris Dillow: In praise of conventional thinking
When does innovation work and when not? I’m prompted to ask by Ed Smith’s wonderful new book, Making Decisions, which argues for the need for”anti-processes”, original thinking and spontaneity to resist “the slide into bureaucratic […]
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