The left needs a progressive Euroscepticism to counter the EU's ills | Costas...
A single European state is neither feasible nor desirable. The left should stress a future of cooperation and equality among its peoplesFrustration is currently sweeping Europe and for good reason:...
View ArticleAre we at a Piketty tipping point for the left? Unfortunately, history...
The left cannot rely on a grand, Thomas Piketty-driven paradigm shift to sweep it to power, so it must first win the little battlesJohn Maynard Keynes wrote that the ideas of economists and political...
View ArticleEconomists warn Scotland over keeping pound if independence goes ahead
New research suggests a formal currency union with the UK would be neither practical nor desirableDavid Cameron says he will not resign if Scotland votes for independenceAn independent Scotland that...
View ArticleWayne Swan: Coalition's policies threaten Australias AAA credit rating
Former treasurer accuses Abbott government of 'trashing our economy' and behaving like fiscal vandals The former Labor treasurer Wayne Swan has accused the Abbott government of putting Australias AAA...
View ArticleGovernment's endless privatisations are bleeding dry our public resources |...
Polly Toynbee bewails, as many of us do, the government's determination to sell, as far as possible, all the public assets of the UK (There's no evidence it works, but privatisation marches on, 6 May)....
View ArticleLabour demands new consultation on Land Registry privatisation plans
Shadow business minister says government consultation has descended into farce after leaking of board minutesPlans to privatise the Land Registry should be put on hold and a new consultation with...
View ArticlePfizer's takeover of AstraZeneca must be blocked | David Sainsbury
We can't allow an excellent and strategically important British company to be dismembered by American asset-strippersI am proud of the fact that the UK is an open trading country. I welcome inward...
View ArticleLabour would retain Local Enterprise Partnerships to prevent upheaval
Shadow chancellor Ed Balls believes there has been too much change which has hampered regional economic growthEngland's regional economies cannot withstand another organisational upheaval, so Labour...
View ArticleUniversity economics teaching isn't an education: it's a £9,000 lobotomy |...
Economics took a battering after the financial crisis, but faculties are refusing to teach alternative views. It's as if there's only one way to run an economy"I don't care who writes a nation's laws...
View ArticleThe truth inside the Google bus lawsuit: gentrification hurts the environment...
Stop blaming poor people for pollution. When Silicon Valley's class war prices out city workers and forces them to the suburbs, they become more eco-evil than GoogleA new lawsuit brought by San...
View ArticleUnpicking the link between laissez-faire economics and corporate greenwashing
Research says firms greenwash less and engage in more substantive CSR in countries which emphasise individual responsibilityWhen it comes to sustainability and corporate social responsibility, many...
View ArticleJoe Hockey's victory cigar blows his everyman image up in smoke
Image management may be crucial in Australian politics, but Joe Hockey caught on camera smoking a smug cigar has puffed his reputation awayIt is one of the interesting social contradictions of...
View ArticleA growing headache for the Chinese economy
Its people won't stop saving and spend their money, while local authorites and state businesses won't stop borrowingSince 2008, an explosion in debt-fuelled expenditure on infrastructure and property,...
View ArticleA UK recovery so fast we may leave our economic partners behind
Interest rates are likely to fall in struggling Europe as they rise in a recovering UK luring more money into our frothy marketsWhat a difference three months make. As Mark Carney was gearing up in...
View ArticleThink Like a Freak extract: joining the dots between hot dogs, Van Halen and...
In this excerpt from their latest book, the authors of Freakonomics teach you how to think like them, along the way revealing how to triumph in eating contestsWhen put on the spot and asked how we'd...
View ArticleIs the recession over? These figures don't tell the whole story | Joe Earle
If we listen to the latest growth and unemployment statistics we might accept all is well, but the financial crisis had deeper causesAccording to the media, the great recession that began in 2008 is...
View ArticleWho really wants to roll back the state? Not the right | Owen Jones
While this government props up big business and delves into our private lives, there is a tradition of individualism on the left waiting to be reclaimedBehold, the onward march of the state. Describing...
View ArticleWar and Gold: A Five-Hundred-Year History of Empires, Adventures and Debt...
This clever history of capital and its speculators weighs the enduring ability of money to ruin societyHistory is often taught as a story in which a succession of monarchs went in search of heirs and...
View ArticleThe UK government must think small to bring about big economic change | David...
Policymakers have been reluctant to adopt ultra-micro projects, but they are an antidote to the failed 'trickle-down' modelDon't look now, but the political language is changing. Once, the phrase...
View ArticleHow Britain's economy got dumber: Pfizer's bid for AstraZeneca | Aditya...
The true significance of the proposed takeover is how few options Britain has now that our manufacturing and research capacity has withered awayNewspapers feast on plane crashes, but they yawn over...
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