The EU political elite simply cannot shake off its subservience to financial corporations, as Carl Bildt’s tweet once again proves. Democracy plays no role in his vision for Europe. There will have to eventually be a […]
“The idea that certain political decisions require high levels of knowledge and technical competency—and thus cannot be left simply to public democratic debate—is problematic for democracies, as it implies delegating public policy framing and decision […]
This is a text that Branko Milanovic wrote in 1999 (!). It was never published, having been rejected a number of times. It is fascinating reading as the author tries to identify what the components […]
Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Cross-posted from Danny Dorling´s blog In hindsight we should have seen it coming. But none of us did, or at least no one […]
This article was written before Qatar announced it would offer $15 billion to bolster the Turkish economy and Turkey had begun introducing measures to stymie the devaluation of the Lira. Heiner Flassbeck is an economist, […]
The first decades of the 21st century have seen, at the global level, two alarming socio-political trends within democratic countries: the increasing level of economic inequality and citizens’ strong dissatisfaction with political establishments. These trends […]
One of the inexplicable elements of the Brexit debate is the development of the Remain movement. Portraying itself as the enlightened 48% of Britain, beyond a few progressive elements, has not laid down any plans […]
Most of the foreign money funding ocean plunder and the felling of the Amazon forest comes through tax havens, researchers say. By Alex Kirby, former BBC journalist and environment correspondent Cross-posted from Climate News Network […]
In the West, from the Second World War until the 1970s, the ideology that won the battle within civil society by becoming hegemonic was Keynesianism. From the 80’s onward a clear change occurred with the […]
Inequality creates the social and political divisions that isolate us from each other. Kate Pickett and Richard Wilkinson are professors of epidemiology, co-founders of The Equality Trust, and authors of The Inner Level: How More […]
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