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08/04/2022

Armchair economics defeated: how China escaped shock therapy

How did post-socialist China become the world’s industrial powerhouse while post-socialist Russia deindustrialised? Isabella Weber’s […]
08/04/2022

Why reality should matter for the Left

British analytical philosopher Kathleen Stock published her book Material Girls – Why Reality Matters for […]
16/12/2021

The left, ready to be resuscitated?

Yet another disappointing election result for a Social Democratic party, followed by a plethora of […]
16/12/2021

How to get Great Power Politics right

For Sven Biscop, a lifelong analyst of international politics and the EU’s external action, his […]
16/12/2021

Philosophy and the art of governing – and why they matter

‘All politicians are the same’ and ‘none of them listens to us’ were two sentences […]
14/07/2021

An alternative system, urgently needed

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If our current problems derive from a failed system, the alternatives need to be systemic […]
14/07/2021

Understanding the Labour Party – its history, its choices, and its potential for the future

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The emergence of the Third Way is remembered as the moment of a great schism […]
19/03/2021

Of another world

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Fabrizio Barca, the animator of the Forum Disuguaglianze e Diversità (Inequalities and Diversity Forum) and […]
19/03/2021

The Social Momentum of Europe

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Spring 2021 is a good season for Social Europe: with the European Commission coming forward […]
19/01/2021

Modern Monetary Theory: What should the EMU make of it?

In 2020, governments all over Europe and beyond have enacted unprecedented fiscal stimulus to keep […]
19/01/2021

“Just do it”: The Economics of Belonging and the temptation of Nike Politics

Corbyn! Trump! Brexit! Thus went the words of Talking Politics, an influential British podcast, when […]
04/11/2020

An ode to muddling through

Exactly ten years after we entered office as members of the Barroso II Commission, and […]
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