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Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Decreasing the size of the state is very unpopular

February 9, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why? Why have we been told for decades that people are fed up with state intervention and state run companies? It is not only the bubble politicians live in. Wren-Lewis fails to mention the integral […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: The fatal inconsistency within neoliberalism

January 25, 2018 Mathew D. Rose 0

There is nothing wrong with a free market. There is when it has been corrupted by neo-liberalism resulting in monopolies and crony-capitalism. It then destroys the market, and that is where we currently are. Read […]

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Voting Labour isn’t going to turn the UK into Venezuela

December 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren-Lewis explains why the policies of Britian’s labour Party are not lunacy, but sound economics – for some policies of which he carries a share of responsibilty. Read here  

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Government debt phobias, and possible cures

December 5, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Simon Wren-Lewis answers five basic questions concerning national debt: The country will go bankrupt When will the debt be paid off? Money could go on something more useful than paying interest Why should my taxes […]

National Politics

Simon Wren-Lewis: If we treat plutocracy as democracy, democracy dies

December 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is probably one of the finest blogs that Simon Wren-Lewis has ever written. It is a brilliant political and media  analysis. Read here  

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Bemoaning the cost of national debt is missing the point – we must invest in the economy

November 30, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

A country that stops investing in public infrastructure will find everything it does becomes more difficult. Read here    

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Disentangling the UK productivity problem

November 29, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

There has been a lot of speculation concerning stagnating productivity in the Western industrial nations. Britain has been particularly hard hit. There is much speculation concerning this development. Wren-Lewis offers an interesting analysis. Read here […]

Austerity

Simon Wren-Lewis: Austerity and mortality

November 27, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

We have posted a number of articles and links concerning how austerity kills. In this article Simon Wren-Lewis analyses this phnomena in the UK and other European nations Read here  

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: Some thoughts about the Job Guarantee

November 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren -Lewis looks at the economic effects of a permament Job Guarantee policy. Read here  

Economics

Simon Wren-Lewis: What really caused the financial crisis

November 12, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Wren-Lewis discusses Tam Bayoumi’s recent book “Unfinished Business” concerning the Great Financial Crisis: “What this analysis by Tam Bayoumi convincingly shows is that finance always has to be carefully regulated, and failures in regulation can […]

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Complicit – Britain’s role in Israel’s genocide by Peter Oborne

October 29, 2025 0

Book Review by Martin Shaw Cross.posted from Declassified UK As British people have turned against Israel’s destruction of Gaza, leading figures in its present and former governing parties still deny that Israel has committed even […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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