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LEAP economics: February 2015
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Saturday, 28 February 2015. REVIEW: The Cost of Living Crisis. Simon Hewitt reviews The Cost of Living Crisis: Time to End Economic Injustice. Published by Radical Read. The Cost of Living Crisis points to deeper issues with the society that has produced it. One word that. The Cost of Living Crisis. By Michael Calderbank was one of our Books to look forward to in 2015. This review first appeared in Labour Briefing. Like many I...
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Marxist-Lentilist: December 2010
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Wednesday, 22 December 2010. The alchemy of modern political economy - turning private debt into public debt and austerity. Excellent post on Bright Green 'People economics: against the European austerity doctrine. My quick comments on the back of reading it below:. Another good analysis of the financial crisis in the Eurozone can be found here European Monetary Union: Muddling Through, Falling Apart, Going Where? Where Next for the Greens in Northern Ireland? I was asked to write a piece for Bright Green.
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LEAP economics: UK labour market update - May 2015
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Thursday, 14 May 2015. UK labour market update - May 2015. A brief analysis of the. ONS Labour Market Statistics. Published on 13 May. Unemployment has continued to fall modestly, but there seems to be some level of displacement into underemployment - and the recent rises in vacancy numbers appears to have ended. It may be that this points to a plateau-ing in the numbers, rather than an imminent downturn. 16 May 2015 at 08:05.
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LEAP economics: March 2015
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Thursday, 26 March 2015. The distribution of wealth: How the system makes us poor and them rich. S speech to the People’s Parliament. On 24 March 2015. If that person is particularly vindictive, perhaps they force everyone to play til the bitter end, until everyone's property is mortgaged, anyone else's houses or hotels have been sold back to the bank, and every last pound from every other player has been given up. In the labo...
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LEAP economics: September 2014
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Tuesday, 30 September 2014. Osborne Calls for 2 year Benefit Freeze. In the Morning Star. GEORGE OSBORNE was told to ensure hard-working people are paid the living wage yesterday, not freeze the benefits they rely on to keep above the breadline. The Chancellor outdid even himself in the “nasty party” stakes, insisting a future Tory government would freeze working age benefits for two years. 8220;In today’s low-pay Britai...
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LEAP economics: December 2014
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Wednesday, 31 December 2014. MOST READ posts of 2014. After a bumper year for the LEAP blog with a record number of posts and a record number of hits, what were the most-read posts of the year? 10 Labour must break with austerity. Ahead of Labour Party conference a group of economists and campaigners - including Richard Murphy, Ann Pettifor, and Prem Sikka - wrote to the Guardian, advising Labour to break with austerity. In Ma...
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LEAP economics: Queen's Speech: "We are storing up a greater crisis for the future"
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Thursday, 28 May 2015. Queen's Speech: "We are storing up a greater crisis for the future". Below are extracts from a speech in the House of Commons by John McDonnell MP. LEAP economics chair, in response to the Queen's Speech. This all adds to the precarious nature of living in London at the moment, as incomes fail to match basic living costs. Professor Guy Standing defined the “precariat”. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Endorsers | The Global Teach-In
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Want a new economy? Let's make one. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. What is the Global Teach-In? Technical information on the broadcast. A Comprehensive Global Agenda Is Needed. Global and European economic alternatives. The fiscal crisis of New York State. How can we pay for new wealth? How can we cut the US military budget? Centre for Progressive Economics, UK. New York University, USA. Jonathan M. Feldman. Stockholm University, Sweden. Workers Independent News, USA. Global Teach-In...
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LEAP economics: May 2015
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LEAP - the Left Economics Advisory Panel. Follow us on twitter @LEAPeconomics. Sunday, 31 May 2015. It Can't Happen Here. Asks: just how much further to the right can Labour's leadership candidates go? This was totally understandable: the deficit was lower at this point than Labour had inherited in 1997 - and this modest deficit came shortly after four years of running a surplus that had seen the New Labour government shrink the national debt from the 42% of GDP they inherited down to little over 30% (fo...