A speech given by Yanis Varoufakis to the Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute, for International Workers’ Day arguing that a universal basic income is now a necessity in our attempts to civilise capitalism.
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Politics
Palestine: Imperial failures and their consequences Read more
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Arts and Culture
Portraits of Pain Read more
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Arts and Culture
Tayeb Salih, Sudan’s Iconic Novelist Read more
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Letters
Newsletter – June 2017 Read more
Economic growth in the US: A tale of two countries
The rise of economic inequality is one of today’s most hotly debated issues. But a disconnect between the different data sets used to measure and understand inequality makes it hard to address important economic and policy questions.
When the IMF evaluates the IMF
The IMF has just released its self-evaluation of its Greek lending, in which it admits to many mistakes. Charles Wyplosz argues that the report misses one important error – reliance on the Debt Sustainability Analysis..
The deep troubles of Italian banks
At the moment, the general outlook for Italian banking is anything but encouraging. Bad loans in Italian banks totalled €360 billion in 2016.
Brexit and the banks
Several cities are vying to replace London as Europe’s financial capital post-Brexit. What will make banks leave, and what will make banks stay? A commentary by the Professor of Banking and Finance at City University of London.
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