Obsession with debt reduction has been disastrous and arguments against a borrow-to-invest approach no longer pass muster
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Larry Elliot: Attacks on McDonnell a sign Tories know stance on borrowing is defunct
Economics
Bill Mitchell – US labour market improvement continues but there is still a long way to go
The US government should introduce substantial job creation policy initiatives. The current position of the US government has biased their stimulus spending towards the corporate sector and high income earners. Read here
Deregulation
Aditya Chakrabortty: The fat cats have got their claws into our universities, and will eat them up
In neo-liberalism everything is a commodity, there to be exploited by the “New Meritocracy” of business people. In the UK they are now plundering what were once true bastions of meritocracy: universities. Read here
Economics
Tim Jackson: ‘Everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile’
Fifty years on from Robert Kennedy’s historic speech on the limitations of the GDP at the University of Kansas in March 1968, Tim Jackson reflects on the failings of measurement and vision which still haunt […]
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