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.
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Illicit Financial Outflows from Developing Countries Grow
New GIF report shows that illicit financial outflows (IFFs) from developing countries, already at alarming levels, continue to grow rapidly.
Read more...Falling Pound Might Not Bring UK Trade Balance Boost
More confirmation that a cheaper pound won’t help the UK’s trade balance.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
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