Economics
Grace Blakeley: Austerity is a political choice – and we reject it
The Tory embrace of austerity (again) is going to run in to multiple problems. Read the article HERE
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Economics
Grace Blakeley – The Elite’s Answer to the Cost of Living Crisis: More Unemployment
The Bank of England is engineering a recession because it believes it will reduce inflation and weaken the spirits of the workers’ movement Read the article here.
Economics
Grace Blakeley: Don’t Blame Workers for Price Rises – Blame the Profiteers
The establishment wants you to blame workers for price rises, but wages have flatlined for a decade – the real cause of inflation is the profiteering of big corporations and the super-rich Read Here
Economics
Grace Blakeley – Interest Rate Hikes Are Class War
Today’s right-wingers are hoping to solve the inflation crisis like they did in the 1970s: through hiking interest rates and suppressing wages. That’s how economists wage class war. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Grace Blakeley – The Elephant Trap: The Language of National Security and the Politics of Liberation
It is tempting for reformers to adopt the language of national security in pursuit of policies that would help protect the interests of popular constituencies. But we should be wary that we don’t operate in […]
Economics
Grace Blakeley: The Coronavirus Crisis Is Accelerating Tech Monopolisation
Big tech monopolies Microsoft, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon and Facebook now make up more than a fifth of the entire value of the S&P 500 stock market index. Read here
Economics
Grace Blakeley – Economics for Millennials
The economist talks to Andrés Lomeña about power relations, feminism and what an economics designed by young people would look like. Grace Blakeley is a British economics commentator and author. Cross-posted from Open Democracy Millennials […]
Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Finance
Grace Blakeley: How the bond vigilantes are holding Argentina to ransom
International institutions have allied with bond vigilantes to bludgeon Argentina into imposing policies that benefit investors and harm working people. Read here
Economics
Grace Blakeley: The next recession won’t be like 2008’s accelerated crisis – it’ll be long, slow and deep
Eleven years on from the crisis of 2008, we are entering a co-ordinated global slowdown, and policymakers must not be complacent. Read here