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Alexander Tziamalis – Why our obsession with GDP ignores harm done to welfare and the world

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Shutterstock Alexander Tziamalis, Sheffield Hallam University One of the first things economics students learn about is Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GDP is also a central concept in many political debates, including Brexit. Will it rise? […]

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Climate News Network – Fairer world may mean more modest dreams

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

To achieve a fairer world, humans must think again about how they manage the only planet at their disposal. By Tim Radford, a founding editor of Climate News Network, worked for The Guardian for 32 […]

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Positive Money – Why I Care About Sovereign Money

February 20, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Neo-liberalism has been so successful, among other reasons, that most people do not understand economics. Austerity would never have been possible with well-informed citizens. Positive Money is trying to disseminate knowledge concerning money – something […]

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Corruption

Daniele Albertazzi and Arianna Giovannini – The 2018 Italian election: old faces, new parties, familiar certainty

February 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Italian elections are rapidly nearing. Although this article left out Liberi e Pari (Free and Equal) it ohterwiseprovides a good overview. The conclusion seems realistic enough: after the elections there will be no change, just […]

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Heiner Flassbeck – German Coalition Agreement: No new beginning, no dynamism, no cohesion, just the same old mercantilism

February 18, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Grand Coalition Agreement in Germany contains of a lot of words, yet little content. It does not fulfil what it promises, but is simply a programme for the intensified continuation of German mercantilism. Heiner […]

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Sergio Cesaratto – Tragic but not serious: the surreal document of the 14 Franco-German economists

February 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Surrealism is king! Germany and other European neo-liberal policy makers are trying to take control of Italy’s finances. As usual, neo-liberal economists are there to help. Sergio Cesaratto is Professor of Growth and Development Economics […]

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Ann Pettifor – Do tax revenues finance government spending?

February 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

No. There are a number of misconceptions of how state finances function. In this piece Ann Pettifor adresses one of these: why taxes are not used for spending. Ann Pettifor – Economist, director of Policy […]

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Anna Coote – Basic income: Robbing Peter to pay Paul

February 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

No wonder universal basic income has so many neoliberal champions. It saps employee power and could actually help dismantle the welfare state, explains Anna Coote. Anna Coote is a Principal Fellow at New Economics Foundation […]

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Colin Hines – ‘#No Brexit Jeremy Corbyn’: saving the UK economy and getting Labour elected

February 14, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A different Remain. Colin Hines is one of the few trying to promote remain, while correcting the failed policies that resulted in Brexit. The question is if the Tories and the EU are seeking an […]

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Asbjørn Wahl – The Crisis of Social Democracy

February 13, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

In Norway the labour Party “changed from being a mass organization for working people into an administrator of the class compromise”, writes Asbjørn Wahl. Neo-lieralism has no desire for compormise and thus no use for […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

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Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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