The EU courts are too often the backstop to protect transnational corporations against attempts by national governments to regulate them.
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Reclaiming our sense of collective and community – Part 1
That ‘naturalisation’ of concepts and theories that are manifestly wrong in terms of how they represent our reality are reinforced by the set of myths that go to the core of mainstream macroeconomics. Read here
Economics
Tim Wu: The Tyranny of Convenience
Our taste for convenience begets more convenience, through a combination of the economics of scale and the power of habit. The easier it is to use Amazon, the more powerful Amazon becomes — and thus […]
Austerity
German Foreign Policy: EU- State of the Union
The EU must develop the capacity “to shape global affairs” and act as “architect of tomorrow’s world,” declared Jean-Claude Juncker, President of the European Commission during his “State of the Union” speech yesterday. The speech […]
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