Mario Draghi, President of the European Central Bank, on 6 June 2013: “The fact that inflation is low is not, by itself, bad; with low inflation, you can buy more stuff.” Frances Coppola is the […]
Germany is once again employing a national solution for its problems, exporting them to poorer EU nations – in this case polluting diesel cars made by the Volkswagen Corporation. Transport & Environment’s mission is to […]
The Finance Curse is a concept first developed by the Tax Justice Network. It is a relatively simple idea — and also an original and powerful multi-level critique of the modern global economy. Here we […]
This week there was an article in the website “Tribune” (read here) by a supporter and earlier financial adviser of the Labour Party attacking Modern Monetary Theory (the more popular MMT becomes, the more such […]
Economic policies enacted under neoliberalism have often failed to meet their objectives, but have remained unchallenged. Why do certain policy failures have so little impact? Jacqueline Best Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) Honorary Research […]
Abby Innes explains how the current financial incentive framework is stacked against any traded company that tries to care about climate change. She warns that without government regulation, the economy’s most regressive financial actors will […]
Migrant boat spotted by Moonbird aircraft on May 29 in the Mediterranean. Moonbird/Sea-Watch Maurice Stierl, University of Warwick In the same week that more migrant lives were lost at sea, the EU’s migration policy in […]
The Yeti and the Loch Ness Monster, whose equivalents in economics are the Laffer Curve and Trickle Down. Frances Coppola is the author of the Coppola Comment finance and economics blog, a contributor to Forbes […]
The United Nations special rapporteur on torture is warning that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is suffering from the effects of “psychological torture” due to his ongoing detention and threats of possible extradition to the United […]
We are continuing with our series of reports concerning the EU parliamentary elections. Like other articles before it, this report borders on the surreal. The leader of the party that won the most EU parliamentary […]
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