Finance and Economy

Sociologist Saskia Sassen talks about the role of cities in globalisation, and how citizens can reclaim the rapidly dwindling urban space.

International trade currently creates huge environmental damage and ‘ecological debt’ from certain countries to others. How can this be remedied?

Foreign investment into the EU often have political, as well as economic, motivations. Should the EU act on this?

Round up of what’s going regarding tax injustice around Europe since the Panama Papers.

Although the commons are no silver bullet solution to society’s ills, combined with the common good and other alternative models they can form the basis of a fairer and more sustainable economic order.

What are the different ways resources can be managed and what different outcomes does it lead to?

Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, has come out with a new book, The Euro : How a Common Currency Threatens the Future of Europe. In recent weeks, Stiglitz has appeared in several features in the press (see especially here in the Financial Times or here in the Guardian), […]

A book review of The Entrepreneurial State by Mariana Mazzucato.

Today, the debate surrounding the Eurozone focuses essentially on two questions: whether it would be preferable or even unavoidable to break up the euro area, at least in its current form, and whether it would be possible to fulfill the necessary political and economic conditions for a more resilient, prosperous and integrated EMU.

Victory seems to be in sight for the movement against the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).