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Dear readers, the Social Europe Journal team would like to thank you for your support in 2010. It has been our best year so far! We added a lot more high profile authors and as a result rapidly increased our readership. Thanks to Paul Krugman, who linked to our survey result yesterday, December 2010 will see [...]
Reading The Economist – which I confess to doing regularly – tends to arouse various emotions. Anger at a particularly galling misrepresentation of what I see as reality (e.g. trade unions, government, Europe). Resentment at the ability to change positions without confessing to past mistakes (e.g. Iraq, climate change, financial liberalisation). Powerlessness when I think [...]
Tomorrow we say goodbye to the first decade of the new millennium. And the last ten years were troubled ones. The 1990s were characterised by a captivating optimism that the new world after the Cold War would bring peace and prosperity for all. The triumphalism could not have been any more striking – remember the [...]
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