There were articles in The Guardian over the weekend that explained a great deal about Labour. First, there were these comments by Andy Beckett: The
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This is one of a series of posts that will ask what the most pertinent question raised by a prominent influencer of political economy might have been,
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In this video, I explain why neoliberalism is not a mistake but a system built to shift power from people to corporations. This politics of
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Macroeconomics is the study of the economy as a whole: how national income, employment, inflation, investment, and financial stability are created and sustained. It asks
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“Free markets” is the phrase used to describe markets supposedly operating without government interference. It is one of the most powerful and totally incorrect myths
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I am out birdwatching, although that may not be obvious from the amount of blogging going on. I am sitting in the window of the
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A question came up this morning in the comments about how to find the ‘economic questions’ series on this blog. It occurred to me that
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Regular commentator, PSR, used the term pleonexia in a comment here this morning. This reminded me that it required a glossary entry. This is it: 
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I think this is the best summary of what happened at the G7 security summit this week. It comes from Politico in the USA: Pentagon
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