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Steve Keen – Outsourcing and public-private-partnerships
Steve Keen debunks outsourcing and public-private-partnerships Listen here
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Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The Future of Capitalism
Podcast about the trajectory of capitalism and democracy, Center for Urban Research and Austerity, January 15, 2018 A talk with Wolfgang Streeck, Professor emeritus of sociology. From 1995 to 2014 he was Director at the Max Planck […]
Economics
Jim Stanford – The minimum wage myth
There is another myth that needs slaying: Minimum wage increases kill jobs
Economics
David Pakman Show – Study shows higher minimum wages work
They said it could not be. If you raise the minimum wage, jobs would be lost. Right? Wrong. Here interesting information from the US concerning Seattle’s ambitious minimum wage programme.
Economics
Facinating Aida: Silver jubilee – The market
Can economics be entertaining? Try this:
EU politics
arte: HSBC – Gangsters of Finance
Since the 2008 crisis, HSBC has been involved in countless scandals: Money laundering for drug cartels, corruption, tax fraud… And yet the international bank escapes justice with insignificant fines. Why are they “too big to […]
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Lucas Chancel Demystifies the Trickle Down Effect Theory
The “Trickle Down Effect Theory” is one of the great neo-liberal scams. It says that the more money the government gives the rich, the more all of us will earn. Why then are we confronted […]
Economics
Robert B. Reich – The Big Picture: How We Got Into This Mess, And How Get Out of It
How do you analyse the current political and economic disaster in the Untied States in 6:21 without saying a word? Reich shows how.
Economics
Mark Blyth – Why People Vote for Those Who Work Against Their Best Interests
Mark Blyth rubbishes the title of his lecture. People vote for what they want and he explains why they want what we have: Trump, Brexit, Duterte, but also Corbyn and Podemos.
Austerity
Thomas Herndon – The man who debunked austerity
In 2013 Thomas Herndon shot to fame when he found major errors in a widely cited academic paper by Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff which had been used to justify austerity policies in Europe and […]