The Bank of England’s failure to respond effectively to the worst inflation in four decades underscores the need to abandon the outdated notion that fiscal and monetary policy can be kept separate. If governments are to be held responsible for investment and employment, they should also control interest rates.
Austerity
Aditya Chakrabortty: Why do we let greedy financiers profit from the pain of foster children?
Privatisation is destroying our society. Once again Aditya Chakrabortty takes a tiny sliver of society and shows how the “free market” is destroying everything it touches, be it people or environment. Profit is all that […]
Economics
Joachim Becker – The Alternative Economic Model of Europe’s Nationalist Right
‘Right-wing nationalist governments in Hungary and Poland only made a selective break with neoliberal economics after the 2008 crash. Their goal was to strengthen domestic capital against foreign competitors without doing anything to empower workers.’ […]
Finance
David Beer: The power of our social media data
David Beer looks at various apsects of the Cambridge Analytica scandal and considers some solutions to the problems posed by social media. Read here
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