At the German biannual car fair in Frankfurt, 25.000 protesters block the entrance and carry their protest into the exhibition halls.
Economics
Business Insider: The ‘supply-and-demand model of labor markets is fundamentally broken,’ and that’s why you’re not getting a pay raise anytime soon
Part-time “underemployment” has, statistically replaced the mass unemployment we remember from the 1980s. As Johnson says: “A majority of people who are classified as poor now live in a household where someone is in work. […]
Austerity
Owen Jones – The hard right can only be defeated from the left, not from the centre
It is a paradox: the centre-right and centre-left parties with their neo-liberal policies have lost democratic credibility and have opened the gates to the ultra-right and fascist parties. These same political elements are now supposed […]
Economics
Howard Reed: Rip it up and start again: the case for a new economics
“Until we ditch the old textbook, we’ll never face up to the challenges of the modern world—or move beyond neoliberalism”. It’s a long read, but time well invested. Read here
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