As European borrowers choke on debts they can’t repay, due to a significant degree to austerity-induced weak economies, financial profiteers swoop in to take advantage of the distress.
Read more...Gandhi had a well-developed view on corporate goverance and influenced business leaders.
Read more...The debate over secular stagnation continues, yet orthodox economists are loath to admit that the needed fix is more demand, which means more government spending.
Read more...How rural hospital closures have serious knock-on effects.
Read more...Looking at the contours of a No Deal Brexit.
Read more...A meaty new paper by Michael Hudson.
Read more...Slouching towards Brexit.
Read more...Why degrowth is necessary and potentially attractive.
Read more...Martin Wolf has a big think about what is wrong in and discovers rentier activity.
Read more...What do critical chapters of British-Irish history augur for Brexit?
Read more...How the shale boom made the US less vulnerable to oil supply shocks.
Read more...“The class war,” said Keynes, “will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie.”
Read more...People turn to authoritarian leaders not because they distrust democracy but because our system is fundamentally undemocratic.
Read more...US trade and economic sanctions not only have not delivered on their stated aims, but they’ve also had unwelcome side effects.
Read more...Larry Summers, a barometer of leading edge conventional wisdom, questions Keynesianism as a distortion of Keynes and for its overconfidence in monetary policy.
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