Economics
13 October 2020 · · Britain, Economics
The Current Economic Situation in Britain
The latest economic data for the UK clearly demonstrates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, writes Susan Pashkoff . Collapse in GDP growth in the UK was at 20.4% in the 2…
12 September 2020 · · Economics, Women · 1 comment
Globally, the pandemic hits women
In his article, “C’est la lutte finale“, Mike Davis argues: “The current pandemic on a global scale exposes and widens the existential divides within and between societies, and reminds us th…
14 August 2020 · · Britain, Economics · 3 comments
Only the labour movement can stop Johnson’s no-deal Brexit
Sorry folks, but we need to talk again about Brexit, writes Jamie Gough . To recap: last October Johnson signed a Withdrawal Agreement and Political Declaration with the EU. After the Tory v…
8 August 2020 · Economics
Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown
Using insights from Belgian Marxist thinker Ernest Mandel, economist George Kerevan argues capitalism will suffer profound breakdown this century. It is now 25 years since the death of Ernes…
26 July 2020 · · Britain, Economics, Ecosocialism, Labour Party, Uncategorized · 1 comment
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
According to the World Health Organisation, the Covid-19 pandemic is still accelerating globally; infections have doubled in the past six weeks, writes Alan Thornett . This is another sharp …
29 April 2020 · Economics
Self-extinction of neoliberalism? Don’t bet on it.
For the second time since the turn of the century, governments in North America and Europe are intervening massively with public funds and in conjunction with central banks to bail out entir…
1 December 2018 · EU, Economics
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 financial crisis? It cannot be because of their success. There is mounting evidence that measures such as restraining European wor…
22 November 2018 · · Economics, Reviews
Economics for the Many
Tony Traub reviews Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso This book is a valuable collection of sixteen short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, coming up with prog…
11 June 2018 · · Economics · 1 comment
Automation and ‘the disappearance of jobs’: what should the left propose?
There is a good deal of discussion in the media of the impact over the next few decades of computer-based mechanisation or automation of waged work, writes Jamie Gough . This is seen by some…
27 November 2017 · Britain, Economics
The Great ‘Productivity’ Puzzle – or the Real Reasons for Britain’s Slump Economics
Would you believe it, asks Phil Hearse ? Just when Theresa May was about to deliver on her October 2016 promise of a more equal society in the sunny uplands of Brexit Britain, along comes th…