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Francis Weyzig – Meet Portugal, the new tax haven

October 25, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

“Lisbon – Europe’s best kept tax secret”. Portugal is offering foreigners tax dodges by buying property in their nation. The race to the bottom is heating up. Francis Weyzig is senior policy advisor at Oxfam Novib […]

Economics

Lars Syll – Why the ‘analytical’ method does not work in economics

October 24, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Deductivist models and ‘analytical’ methods disconnected from reality are not relevant to predict, explain or understand real-world economies. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of Education and Society at Malmö, Sweden Cross-posted […]

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Megan Darby – UN Shipping Climate Talks ‘Captured’ by Industry

October 24, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The shipping industry is one of the main cotributors to CO² and nitrogen-oxide. It is hardly regulated with regard to emissions as this article documents. Megan Darby is Climate Home’s deputy editor. She previously wrote […]

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David Shirreff – Nationalising banks: be careful what you wish for

October 23, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence – or the English Channel. Anyone who has experience with German Landesbanks, Sparkassen, or KfW knows that they are far from perfect. In […]

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Charles Adams – The scarcity myth

October 22, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

It all comes down to a simple question. As Democracy began in ancient Athens around 2,500 years ago, everyone knew what was at stake: the distribution of wealth. There were no mathematical formulas necessary to […]

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Olivier Tonneau and Sophie Rauszer – Plan B vs EU: Refoundation before dislocation

October 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

As a new financial crisis threatens the world, actors of the radical Left will convene at the fifth Plan B summit to save Europe from the neoliberal regime leading it to the abyss. Olivier Tonneau […]

Finance

Richard Murphy – Money changes everything

October 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have posted a number of technical pieces refuting neo-classical economics. In the past two days we had two articles cross-posted from Progressive Pulse here and here which demonstrate this is practice. Both were in favour of […]

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Hulya Dagdeviren – Control of the Energy Sector

October 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The British government’s energy policy is marked by poor performance and high costs for consumers. While energy companies rake in massive profits and repeatedly introduce steep price increases, they treat their customers with contempt and neglect. There is great […]

Finance

Edward Smythe – The Bank of England’s depiction of inequality data is dangerously misleading

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

For some reason there still seems to be a discussion about if the wealthy have inordinately profitted from quantative easing (QE). Postive Money comes to the usual answer: unequivocally yes, Robin Hood in reverse as […]

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Ivan Horrocks – Ideology not money is why affordable NHS healthcare is not a proposition

October 18, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The crisis in the health services in many European nations has nothing to do with deficits and government debt. Austerity is a weapon to destroy social programmes, including health, not to improve them. Ivan Horrocks is […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

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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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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