[The full report is available as a 144-page PDF. The "Double Irish" "Dutch Sandwich" is mentioned. This post contains the introduction] Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services Edited by Laura Figazzolo and…

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Wolfgang Streeck | The Crises of Democratic Capitalism Vincent Browne in the Sunday Business Post and Fintan O’Toole on Tuesday both wrote about the undemocratic nature of how Merkel and Sarkozy summoned Papandreou to Cannes…

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Benjamin Kunkel, Charles Petersen | The Politics of the Poor [...] The vague identity of the Occupy Wall Street protests, so much deplored at first, has proven the movement’s greatest strength. The very nature of…

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Peter Radford | Thoughts on The Ethics Of Economics Medicine has its famous injunction: first do no harm. Economics ought to abide by that rule too. It is a massive evasion of responsibility for the…

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Film from Paula Geraghty of Michael Albert, author of Parecon: Life After Capitalism, speaking in Dublin on 11 October 2011 Michael Albert in Dublin from Paula Geraghty on Vimeo.

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Jeremy Fox | Pay at the top: to each according to results? If there are any redeeming features of the current financial turmoil, one may be that neoliberal capitalism – the West’s version of how…

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Gar Alperovitz | Neither Revolution Nor Reform: A New Strategy for the Left For over a century, liberals and radicals have seen the possibility of change in capitalist systems from one of two perspectives: the…

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Michael Taft | The Strange Case of Ireland’s Double Dip [...] Curiously, the IMF – even as it congratulates the government for adherence to the programme targets – accepts that the current strategy will not…

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Thomas Turner & Michelle O’Sullivan | The crisis and the JLCs [This post contains two extracts from a PDF of slides used in a presentation by Thomas Turner & Michelle O’Sullivan of the University of…

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Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott in the Los Angeles Times | Why (and how) to tax the super-rich [...] Wealth taxation is no novelty. In 2008, France, Norway, Switzerland and five other members of the…

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Chris Dillow | “Values” and the crisis of social democracy Phillip Collins in the Times (£) reminds me why I’m a Marxist rather than a social democrat. He mocks Ed Miliband’s claim that Britain has…

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Filip Spagnoli | Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics The following example is about income shares across the population of the U.S. Technically, the graph below is not a histogram because the y-axis shows cumulated income…

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Steve Keen | 1,000,000 economists can be wrong: the free trade fallacies Not only did the global financial crisis catch the vast majority of economists completely unawares, they instead expected tranquil and even buoyant times…

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Bruno S Frey & Margit Osterloh on VoxEU.org | Variable pay-for-performance is a folly Scientific literature has extensively dealt with variable pay-for-performance. Despite the fact that serious problems linked to this approach have thus become…

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