Bringing democrats together across borders is needed now to prevent a slide into a xenophobic, 1930s-like abyss Click here for The Guardian site or… Yanis Varoufakis Leave won because too many British voters identified the EU with authoritarianism, irrationality and … Continue reading →
Today is a historic day. Post-Brexit the EU is entering a new, furious phase of disintegration. DiEM25’s initial response can be read here. Tomorrow I sum up my reaction in two articles (one in The Guardian and one in Project Syndicate … Continue reading →
In April 2015 I was vilified for refusing to bow to the troika’s demands for a ridiculously high 3.5% primary surplus and for countering the creditors’ failed ‘program’ with a growth plan dubbed A New Deal for Greece. Not only was … Continue reading →
By: Professor Vikas S. Shah, Thought Economics June 11th, 2016 – Download this paper as a PDF here , or click here for the original site at thoughteconomics.com On June 23, 2016 the people of the United Kingdom will be asked the … Continue reading →
Click here for the pdf of the article that resulted from the talk below and which was published in the Australian Journal of Political Economy Filed under: DiEM, European Crisis, Politics and Economics
Filed under: DiEM, European Crisis, Politics and Economics
FOR THE PUBLISHED VERSION IN SPANISH, CLICK HERE. For the original Q&A (in English)… -Has Europe become a new bureaucracy? Are we governed by technocrats? As you describe them in the book, European Union and the European Central Bank have … Continue reading →
ATHENS – A commitment to the independence of central banks is a vital part of the creed that “serious” policymakers are expected to uphold (privatization, labor-market “flexibility,” and so on). But what are central banks meant to be independent of? … Continue reading →
Labour’s Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer, John McDonnell has now joined forces with DiEM25. John is the latest in a rapidly expanding list of illustrious DiEM25 participants, including Ken Loach and Brian Eno (from the UK), Noam Chomsky and James … Continue reading →
On 31st May 2016 the New York Times published the op-ed below (under a title that is unfortunate and not my choice). (For the NYT site, click here.) The version below is the original and contained graphs and data that could not be … Continue reading →
