40.3 Million Slaves: Challenging the Hypocrisy of Modern Slavery Statistics
Reports on slavery whitewash how European countries foster inequality and exploitation, as well as try to impose their values.
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Outsource or Not: A Serious Misreading of Coase
What Coase really said about oursourcing, and why that matters.
Read more...EU Borders: Walking Backwards from Northern Ireland to Cyprus
The UK still has no realistic answer to the problem that the Northern Ireland border poses to Brexit.
Read more...UK Leaders Starting to Crack as Brexit Realities Finally Sink In
Brexit bravaura is scarce in evidence in Whitehall.
Read more...Measuring Racial Segregation in Urban Consumption Using Online Activity
We use restaurant reviews posted to Yelp to study segregation of consumption along racial and ethnic lines in New York City
Read more...Enlightenment Then, Enlightenment Now
On the role of the Scottish Enlightenment.
Read more...UK Oil And Gas Costs To Rise 100% If Brexit Fails
A concrete example of why a disorderly Brexit is not a good idea.
Read more...Brexit Was a Cry of Financial Pain and Not the Influence of the Old
A new analysis of why voters decided for or against Brexit.
Read more...May Rebuffed in Personal Brexit Lobbying in Brussels, Yet Much of UK Press Spins Otherwise
The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...May to Plead With Merkel as Brexit Deadlocks Domestically Too; New Data Shows UK Lacks Foreign Reserves, Meaning Even More Vulnerable to Brexit
New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
Read more...Tim O’Reilly: It’s Time to Rewrite the Rules of Our Economy
The economy game is enormously fun for far too few players and an increasingly miserable experience for many others.
Read more...Theresa May Tries to Pass Off Handwaves as Meaningful Planning in Case of Disorderly Brexit
The Government provides yet more evidence that it is utterly unprepared for Brexit.
Read more...EU Dashes UK Fantasy of Talking About “Future Relationship,” Meaning Trade, Soon
Yet another Brexit fantasy bites this dust, this one the much-ballyhooed “future relationship” talks.
Read more...Naked Capitalism: Things You Won’t Read Anywhere Else (Until Much Later, Maybe)
Naked Capitalism provides a wide array of analysis and resources on the economy, politics, and world trends that you can’t find anywhere else
Read more...EU Immigration – A Gateway Drug
Citizens have become far more sensitive to the perceived and real costs of immigration. Ignore those concerns and risk losing power.
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