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Corruption
d@w Exclusive: Michael Hudson on Junk Economics update 2017
An excellent interview with Michael Hudson. The interview starts with Trump, but quickly moves on.
Podcast
Austerity
New Economics Foundation – United Kingdom: Why are university lecturers on strike?
Excellent background information concerning the university strike in the UK Listen here
Uncategorized
Robert Reich – 7 Incredibly clear economic fundamentals in under 90 seconds
Reich explains why inequality is not good for society and what needs to be changed.
Austerity
Steve Keen – Has Europe really recovered?
I cover “the usual” in my talk itself: the empirical data that screams that credit plays an essential role in macroeconomics, the a priori reasons that mainstream economists ignore it, why this is logically wrong […]
Austerity
Bill Mitchell – Think our governments can no longer control capitalism? You’ve been duped
Bill Mitchell explores among other topics the neoliberal dominance of the political process and the resulting shifts in economic policies.
Economics
The Finance Curse – Professor Gerald Epstein
Dr. Gerald Epstein is Professor of Economics and founding Co-Director of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Among his many excellent works he and Juan Antonio Montecino calculated the […]
Uncategorized
Mark Blyth & David Kertzer – Italy is ticked off
In the wake of Italy’s elections results last weekend, Mark Blyth & David Kertzer put in in historical context and talk populism, nationalism, Five Star Movement and what Italy’s next government will look like. Listen […]
Economics
Diane Coyle on fixing Britain’s economy
Diane speaks to openDemocracy about industrial strategy, universal basic infrastructure, moving beyond GDP, and how to build an economy that works for the 21st century.
Economics
RSA – David Harvey on Marx for the 21st Century
Professor David Harvey, the world’s leading expert on Karl Marx, explains the continued importance of Marx’s analysis and how we can apply it to today’s economy and society.
EU politics
Renegade Inc – The great British train robbery
The former British Prime Minister and devout neoliberal, Margaret Thatcher was in favour of mass privatisation but even she claimed that privatising the British Rail system was ‘a privatisation too far’, but this didn’t stop […]