This is the recorded talk I gave to Positive Money Italy (http://monetapositiva.blogspot.com/) on November 23rd 2018. I explain that excessive private credit caused the relative boom in Italy before the crisis, and the collapse in credit during the Eurozone-imposed period of austerity is the main reason that economic growth in Italy has stagnated.
EU politics
The Real News – Catalonia Independence Crisis Intensifies Spain’s Political Divide
Is this the EU? An update concerning the strange political situation in Catalonia.
Deregulation
Quinn Slobodian/Mark Blyth – Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
Mark Blyth interviews Quinn Slobodian. Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history [www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979529] of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire […]
Finance
New Economics Foundation – Universal Basic Income or Universal Basic Services?
Some people think universal basic income is a utopian impossibility. Others think it’s dangerous. So there’s a proposal for another solution: universal basic services. Instead of giving people money, why not guarantee all of the […]
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