Budget shortfalls can be solved without major spending cuts, but Labour’s economic strategy is driven by electoral concerns
Labour embraces austerity to outflank the Tories
Tag: Economy
Cuba: Economic change and authoritarian stasis
Octavio Alberola looks at the Cuban state’s post-Fidel shift towards a more privatised economic model and the way it has prioritised retainin…
Wartime economics and post-pandemic battles
The relentless recourse to the language of war to describe the public health emergency seems to signal a shift in mainstream economic debate.
People’s Infrastructures: the case of recuperated factory of VIOME
Kostis Roussos, Vaggelis Vragoteris and Haris Malamidis write about a new paradigm of working in common: the case of VIOME, a factory in the outs…
Notes from the US: Racism, Politics, Violence and Economy
Monthly roundup on the state of the USA by Louis Further
Notes from the US
Crime Ex vice-president Cheney’s former oil company, Halliburton, pleaded guilty in late September to destroying evidence after the 2010 oil spil…
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Notes from the US: Surplus population
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Book review: Desire and Fate
Instead of a coherent critique of woke culture, we get a confused, grudge-laden screed that fails to balance the left’s internal contradictio…
