debating progressive politics in Europe and beyond
The endless EU vs US debate rolls on, but now with an odd twist. Although the objective facts about economic inequality, immobility and so on are far worse in the US than the EU, the political situation seems more promising. (I’m not talking primarily about electoral politics but about the nature of public debate.) In [...]
The protest movements that have flared up across the West, from Chile to Germany, have remained curiously undefined and under-analyzed. Some speak of them as the greatest global mobilization since 1968 – when enragés in very different countries coalesced around similar concerns. But others insist that there is nothing new here. The Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev, [...]
We need a Sustainable Fairness Doctrine to reshape our Economy. The EU is part of the solution, not the problem. The UK Coalition Government is led by a Conservative Party which acts as the political-wing of the Financial Services Industry and fails to tackle real problems. This has opened a space for the Europhobes in [...]
One of the most striking successes of the Occupy Wall Street movement has been the “We are the 99 per cent” idea, and more specifically in the identification of the top 1 per cent as the primary source of economic problems. Thanks to #OWS, the fact that households the top 1 per cent of the [...]
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 [...]
Will the Wall Street Occupiers morph into a movement that has as much impact on the Democratic Party as the Tea Party has had on the GOP? Maybe. But there are reasons for doubting it. Tea Partiers have been a mixed blessing for the GOP establishment – a source of new ground troops and energy [...]
As you can see from various previous posts, I have been a fan of Joseph Stiglitz’ for quite some time but this takes academic activism onto a new level! Last weekend, he joined the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protest in New York: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy
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