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EU politics
Naomi Klein: Speech to the British Labour Confernce
Naomi Klein’s Speech to the British Labour Confernce on September 26th.
Podcast
EU politics
Renegades Inc. – Jason Hickel: Aid programs keeping countries in poverty
Jason Hickels explains his new book The Divide. Hickel uses newest facts, analyses, and theories concerning economic inequality between rich and poor nations, destroying current myths about development. View here
Finance
Renegade Inc: Britain’s Private Debt Problem
Ross Ashcroft sits down with anthropologist and writer, David Graeber and former chairman of the now abolished Financial Services Authority, Lord Turner to discuss what is preventing us from talking about the taboo that is […]
Finance
Positive Money – Out of the Darkness: Can a reformed financial system solve the world’s biggest problems?
It has been 10 years after the financial crash of 2007-8 and the dysfunction of our banking system is finally under scrutiny. A recent event for Positive Money on 18th September 2017 saw 200 people […]
Finance
New Weather Institute: Did the bank crisis ever end?
Did the banking crisis ever end, or continue in other forms? New Weather teamed up with Prime Economics on the anniversary of the crisis to ask the big questions To visit the website of the […]
Finance
Tax Justice Network – Podcast September 2017: Hurricanes, disaster capitalism, bitcoin bubble & over-reliance on GDP
In edition 69 of our monthly podcast, the September 2017 Taxcast we look at our over-reliance on unhelpful economic measures like Gross Domestic Product and how it constrains us. Also: we discuss hurricanes, tax havens […]
Finance
David Harvey: Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason
David Harvey’s lecture at the London School of Economics on 18 September entitled “Marx, Capital and the Madness of Economic Reason”. Harvey is probably the most well-known Marxist scholar in the world. https://richmedia.lse.ac.uk/publiclecturesandevents/20170918_1830_MarxCapitalAndTheMadnessOf.mp4
Finance
Steve Keen – PATREON: Why the poor pay for high debt, even if they don’t borrow (in 13 minutes & 15 seconds flat)
This was an invited talk to public servants organized by the Exploring Economics group (https://www.exploring-economics.org/en/). In just over 13 minutes Keen provides a complex systems argument that the poor pay for debt, even if they […]
Finance
Strike by employees or McDonalds in Britain organised by Momentum
40 staff from McDonald’s restaurants in Cambridge and Crayford walked out on September 4th over the transnational company’s use of zero-hours contracts and lack of union recognition. Listen here und here
EU politics
Michel Feher: Bearings of the Left
Michel Feher reflects on the dilemmas faced by the left in the wake of Brexit and Trump. Listen