The May ’68 Movement was the start of a historical period of considerable reduction in social inequalities in France which ran out of steam later for quite different reasons.
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Thomas Piketty: May 1968 and inequality
EU politics
Reuters: Italy passes law targeting temporary work, firms moving abroad
It will be interesting how far the 5-Star Movement fulfils its promises and how Italian companies react, should that be the case. Read here
EU politics
Richard Murphy: Schäuble gets it wrong, even in hindsight
Wolfgang Schäuble, the leader of Europe’s austerity campaign and devastator of Greece, is retiring. Neither he, nor the German media, have any doubt that he saved Europe from itself. Richard Murphy is neither German, nor […]
Economics
Vitor Mellow: The Neoliberal Tale
The rise of neoliberalism was not spontaneous but rather orchestrated and planned; it was a collective transnational movement to counteract the mainstream of the time; it was originated out of delusion in a period marked […]
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