Austerity
Bill Mitchell: Governments are now in an ideological bind
The EU is a system that survives because the key institutions break the law – to the advantage of neo-liberal interests. Read here
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Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: How hard is it for the government to create some jobs?
The – Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights – for the UN was released this week (July 7, 2020). It was Philip Alston’s last report in that role. It is […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: We can have full employment again in a green world
We can have full employment again. We can choose a Just Urgent Sustainable Transformation Read Here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: US labour market reverses direction but for how long?
The current position of the US government has biased their stimulus spending towards the corporate sector and high income earners. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – Governments should do everything possible to avoid recessions – yet they don’t
The significance of hysteresis. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The French inferiority complex
A reflection would suggest that France should lead the way out of the Eurozone and craft policy that advances the interest of all French citizens rather than play into the global aspirations for supremacy held […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Neoliberalism is likely to survive yet another crisis
The beginning of the blog concerns Australia, but quickly goes over to the EU. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Government goes missing in the European Union
What is wrong with Europe these days is its structures and cultures have combined to create dysfunctional responses from government to crises. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The British government did not approach insolvency in March 2020
It is very disturbing that the media misleads people so manifestly. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Eurozone inflation heading negative as the PEPP buys up big – don’t ask the mainstream to explain
Governments save economies. Never let a mainstream economist tell you that government intervention is undesirable and that the ‘market’ will sort things out. Never let them tell you that large-scale government bond purchases by central […]