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Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
TTIP -- as the driving factor behind current geopolitical drama. What will remain is minimum safety and environmental standards. If course, the capacity of Europe to regulate its own markets will be also reduced. I wonder what European environmentalists think of this TTIP -- I am sure they are not happy. Current European environmental standards, ( Read more... ) -
a take on democracy as system of government, from China...
strikingly different from what is being taught in Western universities...
"As Western democracy requires a high standard of industrialization, many underdeveloped countries have fallen into political tragedies. It is hard to perceive how long they will take to walk out of the crisis.
Unlike these countries, China has become aware of the ( Read more... ) -
US an oligarchy not democracy: research
This paper is a ground-breaking study to include in syllabi of comparative politics courses, all based on time series, -- long-term statistical analysis, published today on the front BBC page
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-echochambers-27074746 political economy, teaching, usMarx redux: Thomas Piketty
Suddenly, there is a new economist making waves - and he is not on the right. At the conference of the Institute of New Economic Thinking in Toronto last week, Thomas Piketty's book Capital in the Twenty-First Century got at least one mention at every session I attended. You have to go back to the 1970s and Milton Friedman for a single economist to ( Read more... )(Untitled)
The failure of neo-liberalism to use oil money for public good, an excellent piece on comparing the experiences of the UK and Norway:
The Verdict on Thatcherism Is Clear
Simply compare how her UK squandered its oil wealth compared to Norway.
political economy, the uk, norway, economics