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The productivity puzzle explained. How right wing policies and neoclassical recipes destroy economic growth

By Will Denayer

22. September 2017 I Countries and Regions, Economic Policy, Europe, General, General Politics

‘America needs its unions more than ever.’ And ‘Labour reform could help restore the bargaining power of US workers.’ Can you believe that these are titles from articles in the Financial Times?
Mario Draghi, the president of the ECB, recently boasted that since 2015 the euro-zone gained more than 5 million jobs. …

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The Tories are using the Brexit to turn the UK into a right-wing dictatorship

By Will Denayer

20. September 2017 I Countries and Regions, Europe, General, General Politics

The Tories are using the Brexit to turn the UK into a right-wing dictatorship
“What has happened to our moral sensibility? Did we ever have any? What do these words mean? Do they refer to a term very rarely employed these days – conscience? …

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Racism and xenophobia now govern the UK. Tony Blair’s intervention

By Will Denayer

12. September 2017 I Countries and Regions, Europe, General, General Politics

This is an update to the article ‘UKIP ideology now governs the UK’ from yesterday (see here).
Is there any politician left who is not willing to sell his or her mother in order to get to or remain in power? …

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An interview with Heiner Flassbeck: Germany’s model and its growing class of working poor

By Will Denayer

11. September 2017 I Countries and Regions, Economic Policy, Europe, General, General Politics, Labour Market and Distribution of Income

Heiner Flassbeck gave an interview to the American The Real News Network. The main topics were the ideology of Germany as a model economy and its growing class of working poor.
Merkel’s strategy over the years has been as simple as it has been destructive. …

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