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Climate Crisis

Yannis Dafermos, Daniela Gabor, Maria Nikolaidi, Frank van Lerven – An Environmental Mandate, Now What?

January 11, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Alternatives for Greening the Bank of England’s Corporate Bond Purchases Yannis Dafermos is Senior Lecturer in Economics at SOAS University of London Daniela Gabor is associate professor in economics at the University of the West […]

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Frank van Lerven – Public debt and debt servicing costs: The nightmare that never was

November 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

National debt has been used as a propaganda tool in the class war to transfer wealth to the rich. What if  you have a high national debt but a very low debt servicing payments? This […]

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141 Economists and 1 Historian – It’s time Europe stopped fetishising fiscal discipline

June 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

We should prioritise more important outcomes – like creating well-paid green jobs and lifting millions out of poverty To view the list of participants go here Cross-posted from the New Economics Foundation Contrary to the […]

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Economics

Frank Van Lerven: Public debt - the untold story

May 31, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Fetishising public debt doesn’t give us the full picture on the economy and the role of government borrowing Frank van Lerven is an  economist currently leading New Economics Foundations’s work on greening central banks and […]

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Frank van Lerven – QE being used to support Fossil Fuel Industry

August 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

There has been no change. European governments are using QE to support the environment destroying international corporations. What is occurring in the UK is also happening in the ECB and support programmes by European governments. […]

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Frank van Lerven – Who’s pulling the strings? Uncovering a tale of deregulation in the EU

December 11, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

To thrive we all need things like clean air, a safe environment, and decent working conditions. A woven network of regulations has been assembled over time to protect these basic freedoms, the most vulnerable, and […]

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Frank Van Lerven and Andrew Jackson – A Government is not a household

October 31, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is probably no economic fallacy that is so difficult to correct than that of  Swabian hausfrau economics (you can only spend what you have -although Swabians are fanatical homeowners, most of which are financed […]

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Corruption

Frank van Lerven and Margaret Welsh – A deregulatory agenda is sweeping across Europe

August 29, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

A new agenda – misleadingly called ​‘Better Regulation’ – has recently swept across Europe, undermining the protections and values that we rely on for a healthy planet and an empowered public. It was promoted as […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson

April 21, 2025 0

Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians.  It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]

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