Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies.
Listen here
Economics
BBC – Shaking the Magic Money Trees
There is a magic money tree! Governments need neither tax nor borrow to spend. They can create money – and lots of it. £435 billion was created for quantitative easing in Britain. Listen here
Economics
Robert Schiller – Phishing for Phools: the economics of manipulation and deception
Robert Schiller on his most recent book.
EU politics
Mark Blyth – High Water Mark (November 2017)
Cyber Monday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the Social Democrats coalition, Net Neutrality, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, debt ceilings, Bit Coin and Prince Harry’s proposal. Mark Blyth, political economist at Brown’s Watson Institute, and […]
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