Watching the trials of the Catalan independentists now taking place at Spain’s highest court in Madrid, I have been reminded again and again of a scene from director Hal Ashby’s marvelous 1979 movie Being There.
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Economics
Franco Galdini : Want to understand industrialisation in resource-rich countries such as Uzbekistan? Read Marx (and Iñigo Carrera)
The commodity supercycle of the 2000s and 2010s gave rise to a rich debate in the academic literature about the possibility for resource-rich countries to muster the primary commodity price bonanza for development. As in […]
EU politics
Reuters: Spain’s Basques form 202-km human chain to call for independence vote
It appears democracy is catching up with the Spanish central government in Madrid. First in Catalonia now in the Basque conuntry. Read here
Corruption
Norbert Häring: The Curious Silence of the British Media Regarding Mark Carney and the Secretive G30
Mario Draghi has been forced to leave the opaque G30. If the head of the ECB should not be there, why is the head of the Bank of England still a member? Read here
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