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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
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
Michel Feher reflects on the dilemmas faced by the left in the wake of Brexit and Trump. Listen
Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and Carrie Nordlund, political scientist and associate director of Brown’s MPA, share their take on the week’s news. Trump’s DACA repeal, hurricanes and insurance markets, Amazon’s growth, […]
Steve Keen on How Austerity works…: Yes, of course I’m being ironic. But you never know how many people who actually believe that it does work might click on View. You can follow Steve at […]
From The Guardian Stephen Metcalf: Neoliberalism: the idea that swallowed the world The word Neoliberalism has become a rhetorical weapon, but it properly names the reigning ideology of our era – one that venerates the […]
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