Since we launched BRAVE NEW EUROPE we have stressed the violence of austerity. In 2013 David Stuckler and Sanjy Basu wrote a convincing book entitled “The Body Economic – Why Austerity Kills” concerning the short […]
Just as wtih GDP, productivity as such is not good. It depends on the type of productivity as Lindsay Mackie explains. Lindsay Mackie was trained as a journalist in Scotland and joined The Guardian as a […]
Duncan Green is Head of Research at Oxfam GB Cross-posted from Duncan’s blog From Poverty to Power So a physicist, an anthropologist, and two political economists have lunch in the LSE canteen and start arguing […]
Like so many social democratic parties in Europe the SPÖ in Austria is in crisis. Tamara Ehs asks if the party is capable of regenerating itself and what is the future of democracy in […]
A finance curse research agenda involves forensic dissection of financial dysfunction and pathology, helping to illuminate what needs to be put right Andrew Baker is a Faculty Professorial Fellow, SPERI This blog was first posted […]
On December 5 the EU will be publishing a list of jurisdictions that it considers to be non-cooperative in international tax matters. Today, we name the jurisdictions that we evaluate as meeting their published criteria, […]
An essential element of the neo-liberal discourse is that leftist political parties always increase the national debt; parties on the right do not. They are fiscally responsible. In his article Richard Murphy takes the trouble […]
Uber drivers and college cleaners, cinema workers and McDonalds staff marched for better pay and basic rights. By Aidan Harper, Assistant Researcher at the New Economics Foundation Cross-posted from the New Economomics Foundation 2017 […]
From how UK banks create money to how they managed to lose so much of it in the last crisis, there are some persistent misconceptions that must be challenged. A bank’s privilege is not only its ability […]
This article by Chris Bambery catches up on the developments in Catalonia since it declared independence. Chris Bambery is an author, political activist and commentator, and a supporter of Rise, the radical left wing coalition in […]
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