EU politics
Simon Wren-Lewis: Dani Rodrik talks straight on trade
Wren-Lewis discusses Dani Rodrik’s new book “Straight talk on trade”. Read here
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Solutions
George Monbiot: Keynesianism is dead. We need a radical reboot of our economy
George Monbiot proposes a couple of useful suggestions for turning around the modern state and its economy. Read here
Finance
Branko Milanovic : Can mass mobilization wars increase income inequality?
Milanovic examines the war as a great leveler hypothesis . Read here
EU politics
Thomas Frank: What Harvey Weinstein tells us about the liberal world
While the media has concentrated on the salacious episodes of Harvey Weinstein’s crimes against women. Thomas Frank has taken a political prespective – and as always in the case with his analyses, thought provoking. Read here
EU politics
Chris Dillow: Why conservatives should be Corbynistas
“Bourgeois virtues pay off in a bourgeois society – where there is a large middle class. But they don’t pay off in a 1% takes all society where wealth is accumulated in shadier ways.” Read […]
Finance
Max Lawson: Is inequality going up or down?
Originally published on Tax Research UK Lawson looks at the development of inequality worldwide. Read here
Climate Crisis
George Monbiot: Opinion Insectageddon: farming is more catastrophic than climate breakdown
At least Monsanto, Bayer and the other multinational pesticide and GMO seed producers are still earning billions. Like Peter Thiel, those making the profits are probably buying estates in New Zealand, where they can go when the environmental […]
EU politics
Owen Jones: British banks can’t be trusted – let’s nationalise them
Brexit is going in directions that no one even contemplated before the referendum – Britain rethinking its economic future. This is not the stuff of ultra-conservatives and racists, but a left that is discovering that […]
Finance
Joseph E. Stiglitz , Dean Baker , Arjun Jayadev: Intellectual Property for the Twenty-First-Century Economy
Intellectual property rights have become the biggest monopoly scam in the world. They have been supported by the World Trade Organisation, which in turn is dominated by those nations home to these monopolistic multinationals. The […]
EU politics
Social Mobility Commission of the UK: Low pay and progression in the labour market
This – once again- puts paid to the claim that Jobs with low pay lead to well paid, permanent employment. Read here