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David Shirreff: Headless Chickens – The EU Elections and Brexit

May 27, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

The EU elections are over. Nothing is settled and Britain stands before a monumental dilemma – or two. David Shirreff is one of the founders and current editors of BRAVE NEW EUROPE. He is a […]

Media

Nervous States: How feeling took over the world by William Davies

March 10, 2019 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by David Shirreff Perhaps this book should be called The Theory of Everything, though that title has already been used for a movie about Stephen Hawking, the theoretical physicist and expert on black […]

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Corruption

David Shirreff – Theresa and the “N”-word

November 17, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

David Shirreff opines on the British prime minister’s three choices for Brexit David Shirreff is one of the founders and current eidtors of BRAVE NEW EUROPE. He is a former finance and business journalist at […]

Economics

Money and Government by Robert Skidelsky

November 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff   Robert Skidelsky, acclaimed biographer of Keynes, anatomises an economic and monetary landscape that could be fertile ground for a Keynesian revival There is something seriously wrong with classic economic […]

Economics

The Finance Curse by Nicholas Shaxson

October 15, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff The problem outlined in this book has deep roots and it shows no signs of going away. The “finance curse” pervades many Western economies, from tiny tax havens to big […]

Finance

The Globalization Backlash by Colin Crouch

September 30, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book Review by David Shirreff The reaction of ordinary people to globalization gets the blame for many upsets including, for example, the surprise election of Donald Trump in America in 2015, and Britain’s “Brexit” vote […]

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EU politics

Theatre Review – Brexit by Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky

July 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

By David Shirreff If you are in Edinburgh sometime this August, try to see this play. Whether you’re a Brexiteer or Remainer it will make you think. Apart from being very entertaining it manages to […]

Economics

Saving Britain by Will Hutton and Andrew Adonis

July 26, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff This is a passionate, well-argued plea for a European Britain, written by two avowedly socialist Remainers. They will not accept the standard disqualifier: that the EU is a collection of […]

Economics

EuroTragedy – A Drama in Nine Acts by Ashoka Mody

July 10, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Book review by David Shirreff There’s an old proverb: “The road to hell is paved with good intentions.” Ashoka Mody, a former IMF economist, and visiting professor at Princeton, tells the tragic tale of how […]

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Economics

David Shirreff – Positive Money severely tested in Switzerland: A welcome debate on reforms to the way credit is created faces a Swiss vote

June 8, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Today Switzerland is holding a referendum concerning banking and the creation of money. BRAVE NEW EUROPE is posting two contrary articles in response to a piece in the Financial Times by MartinWolf on the topic […]

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

July 2, 2025 0

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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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

June 15, 2025 2

Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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