debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
Looking at Europe these days some people (at least of my generation) may remember the lyrics of a famous song of the rock band AC/DC from the late 1970s: “I’m on my way to the Promised Land — I’m on the highway to hell.” More and more countries of the Euro zone are drifting into [...]
As people in the developed world wonder how their countries will return to full employment after the Great Recession, it might benefit us to take a look at a visionary essay that John Maynard Keynes wrote in 1930, called “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren.” Keynes’s General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money, published in 1936, equipped [...]
This year has witnessed a global wave of social and political turmoil and instability, with masses of people pouring into the real and virtual streets: the Arab Spring; riots in London; Israel’s middle-class protests against high housing prices and an inflationary squeeze on living standards; protesting Chilean students; the destruction in Germany of the expensive [...]
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