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Austerity
Mark Blyth – Why Do People Continue To Believe Stupid Economic Ideas
Informative as well as entertaining
Podcast
EU politics
The Guardian: On the Road – living and working on the Italian ‘road of love’.
Hundreds of women operate as sex workers along the Strada Bonifica, the ironically named ‘road of love’ on the Adriatic coast of Italy. There has been a huge increase in the number of Nigerian women […]
Finance
The Paradise Papers: a Tax Justice UK briefing
A virtual briefing and Q&A on the Paradise Papers, what they mean for the UK’s tax system, and what we can do to fix it. Juliette Garside is a financial correspondent at the Guardian, who […]
Economics
Steve Keen – FT Alphaville interview by Izabella Kaminska
FT Alphaville interview by Izabella Kaminska encoded-773138d0559c746e466ac6247fb748ee-64.mp3 Izabella is one of the key intellects behind the Financial Times’ Alphaville project: to get an appreciation of her calibre, read her post below on the topic du […]
Economics
Kate Raworth – Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
Kate Raworth talks about her book “Doughnut Economics” Listen here
Finance
Tax Justice Network – The Bogota Declaration on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights
The Bogota Declaration on Tax Justice for Women’s Rights is being launched around the world on7 December 2017 through online platforms and at tax justice events in Argentina and Chile. You can read the Declaration text […]
Economics
Pileus – An MMT interlude
The essential insight of Modern Monetary Theory (or “MMT”) is that sovereign, currency-issuing countries are only constrained by real limits. They are not constrained, and cannot be constrained, by purely financial limits because, as issuers […]
EU politics
Anthony Barnett: The Lure of Greatness
Anthony Barnett discusses his new book, The Lure of Greatness, Part 1 – LabourTube
Economics
New Economics Foundation – TEN YEARS ON: RETHINKING MONEY AFTER THE FINANCIAL CRISIS
The programme begins at 8:19. The sound is very poor. Sara Mahmoud, Senior Economist, New Economics Foundation Tony Greenham, Director of Economy Enterprise and Manufacturing, RSA Josh Ryan-Collins, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Innovation and […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Can we avoid another financial crisis?
This is an excellent interview with Steve Keen. It is not as technical as is often the case with Keen and easily accesible to the non-economist Watch here