Extreme Poverty Cut in Half? Only in the Minds of the Capitalists
The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...The much-touted fall in extreme poverty is more the result of bad or cherry-picked metrics than real progress.
Read more...Why “building tall” is not an answer to urban housing affordability.
Read more...Car sales hit an air pocket in October.
Read more...How the Protestant Reformation transformed not only Western Europe’s religious landscape, but also its politics and economy.
Read more...More confirmation that a cheaper pound won’t help the UK’s trade balance.
Read more...Some initial reactions to Catalonia’s declaration of independence and Madrid’s initiation of direct rule.
Read more...The Phillips Curve is broken and is used by policy-makers to hurt workers. Can it be fixed?
Read more...Brexit bravaura is scarce in evidence in Whitehall.
Read more...None other than New Zealand’s prime minister has issued a blistering critique of capitalism. Can it be saved from itself?
Read more...How an anti-neoliberal recovery plan is starting to get traction in Puerto Rico.
Read more...More and more experts are nattering nervously about market risk and occasionally using the “crisis” word. What are the potential hazards?
Read more...A concrete example of why a disorderly Brexit is not a good idea.
Read more...The latest Brexit follies….
Read more...A round–up of reactions to behavioral economist Richard Thaler’s selection for the so-called Nobel Prize for Economics.
Read more...New data showing that the UK has negative net foreign assets throws even more cold water on the idea of a Glorious Brexit.
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