Monday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Dean Baker reminds us that we shouldn’t let ourselves get distracted from the serious problems with inequality when defenders of the status quo…
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Friday Morning Links
Assorted content for your long weekend reading. – Jim Buchanan comments on the mountain of inequality looming over all of our political choices. Laurie Posner interviews Paul Gorski about the…
Podcast: The roots of the Greece crisis in European integration and what this means for the future
https://politicalehconomy.files.wordpress.com/2015/04/podcast150402-europe.mp3 As the simmering crisis between Greece and the institutions formerly known as the Troika heats up again, it’s a good time to look once more at the roots of…
Transfers, taxes and who pays for austerity
The question of who pays for austerity and how is an enormous one. Promoters of austerity often claim that cuts to universal services are fine if they’re offset by transfers…
Sunday Morning Links
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Simon Wren-Lewis connects the UK’s counterproductive austerity program to the lack of any wage growth. And Gary Lamphier observes that Alberta is…
On value assessments
The Great Budget Debate at the Progress Summit of course reflected a thorough clash in values. But there was one note of obvious agreement which makes the conservative position untenable…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – David Vognar argues that we should push for a guaranteed annual income not only as a matter of social equity, but also…
ROCHON on: A tale of two economies? Making sense of recent US and Canadian labour market data
Louis-Philippe ROCHON Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon With data on the performance of Canada’s labour market released today, many economists and…
Greece: Phase Two | Jacobin
Very interesting interview with Syriza MP and SOAS Professor of Political Economy Costas Lapavitsas. Greece: Phase Two | Jacobin. Much — too much — has been written in a journalistic,…
Deficit Déjà Voodoo again in New Brunswick
The Fredericton Daily Gleaner published an op-ed I wrote about how the province doesn’t have a structural deficit, despite the government claiming it does. The commentary piece is behind a…
Thursday Morning Links
This and that for your Thursday reading. – Following up on last week’s column, Frances Ryan laments the UK Conservatives’ choice to inflict needless suffering on anybody receiving public benefits:…
Contesting Capitalism in the Eurozone
In light of the new Syriza government’s difficult struggle against the German dominated institutions of the Eurozone, I’ve revisited a little known book published ten years ago by political scientist…
Deadlier Than Putin’s Missiles. The IMF Pays Ukraine a Visit.
The International Monetary Fund has worked its magic on Ukraine. The carrot is about $17-billion in bailout funding. The stick is the market price of natural gas. Soon the democracy-loving…
Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward | The Bullet No. 1089
Syriza’s Only Choice: A Radical Step Forward | The Bullet No. 1089. 1. Introduction The transitional “bridge Agreement” of the 20th of February is a truce intended by the Greek…
THE EURO, THE DRACHMA AND GREECE: limited options in an impossible situation
Jean-Francois Ponsot Associate Professor of Economics, Université de Grenoble (France) and Louis-Philippe Rochon Associate Professor of Economics, Laurentian University (Canada) Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics ___________________ The final agreement between…
The rise of Europe’s new Left
The rise of Europe’s new Left. By Bryan Evans Filed under: Europe, Socialism Tagged: Austerity, Europe, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, Podemos, Spain, Syriza
They’ll Nip This in the Bud
It’s enough to give an oligarch chest pain. Barely a month in power, popular support for the left-wing, anti-austerity government in Greece is soaring. Syrzia won the January polls with…
European Banks vs. Greek Labour
Filed under: Austerity Tagged: Austerity, Eurozone Crisis, Greece, neoliberalism
Germany’s sickly economy | Europe’s World
Germany’s sickly economy | Europe’s World. Filed under: Austerity, Eurozone crisis Tagged: Eurozone Crisis, German Economy, Germany
Syriza buys four months of breathing room
Belatedly, here is an article I wrote on Greece’s agreement with the Eurozone for Ricochet. It focuses on the next four months with their opportunities and pitfalls. Given that the…