“The threat to the world today is not a trade war but a social war, conducted by means of aggressive policies of fiscal dumping which benefit the wealthiest and the most mobile.”
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Thomas Piketty: Towards a Union in the Union
EU politics
Robert de Vries and Aaron Reeves: Why do people care more about benefit ‘scroungers’ than billions lost to the rich?
The authors identify a phenomenon that we saw in the election of Donald Trump as president of the USA: People identify with the rich and powerful – to which they will never belong – rather than […]
Finance
Nick Dearden: If Labour wants to save the NHS, it needs to cut out Big Pharma
Giant drug companies – ‘Big Pharma’ – have become the ultimate symbol of a broken corporate model. They live off monopolies on medicines discovered many years ago, extending those monopolies by making tiny changes to […]
Finance
Alex Cobham: We Could Eliminate Extreme Global Poverty If Multinationals Paid Their Taxes
International tax rules have reached a crossroads. The reform program announced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) this summer represents the last chance for the Organisation’s club of rich countries to find […]
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