Friday, Jan 27th 2012
The Right to the City lecture (Part 1) - David Harvey
Here’s yet another David Harvey lecture. Not on the financial crisis per se, but based on his New Left Review article The Right to the City and how modern capitalism is closely tied to the development of urbanisation.
The Right to the City - part 1
The Right to the City - part 2 David Harvey lecture
The second part of the hour long lecture by David Harvey on his NLF article: The Right to the City
The Right to the City - part 2
The European Anti-Poverty Network (Ireland) has organised a debate between all the Dublin candidates for the European election today. The event will be streamed as a live broadcast between 2pm and 4pm today, May 14th 2009 and can be seen below.
The speakers confirmed include: Joe Higgins, Eoin Ryan MEP, Gay Mitchell MEP, Proinsias De Rossa [...]
Here is my challenge to the real devaluationists. Will any of them take it up? Real devaluationists claim that, since we can’t devalue our currency, we must devalue other inputs into the economy. Wages feature prominently as in cutting wages will increase our competitiveness. Many of these ‘real devaluationists’ are grouped around Irisheconomy.ie (Alan Ahearne [...]
Is the Usurper Pope in a Usurper State!
All the papers this week are being raging about the news of the False Pope, Benedinct, and his visits to the bit of Palestine called Israel and the bits of Palestine called Palestine in order to finally bring peace to that dreadful place, although his real message to [...]
Raymond Baker | India’s curse of black money’
Baker writes on the reluctance of the OECD to bring in real reform over the movement of international capital. He says that illicit capital flight from developing countries like India is responsible for an outflow of $1,000bn (€766bn, £684bn) a year."Mainland China’s massive outflows were predominantly the result [...]
Tax Justice Network: Illicit flows: the OECD’s swaggering myopia
The TJN blog on the OECD response to Raymond Baker's comment article on illicit flows published in the Financial Times in April.
"A little background research on whether or not there is "universal endorsement" of the OECD's policies would be in order before firing off letters like this [...]
The Indian General Election: The endgame and what it portends
The endgame in the 15th general election will be played out today in four corners of the country. On the eastern front bordering Bangladesh, greater Kolkata and the 24 Parganas go to polls in this last phase. On the western front bordering Pakistan, this phase includes [...]
BBC NEWS | Germany agrees ‘bad bank’ scheme
Although the exact details have yet to be released, reports say banks that wish to take part in the voluntary scheme will be given bonds worth 90% of the value of the toxic assets. The toxic debt will then be stored for up to 20 years. Finance Minister [...]
Over on progressive economy, Sli Eile provides an excellent run down from a progressive point of view of the former Swedish Minister for Finance, Jen Henriksson’s Ten Lessons about Budget Consolidation which is now broadly seen as the panacea to cure all recessionary ills. In looking at Henriksson’s advice Sli Eile points out that the [...]
