Should We Stop Paying Our Water Bills?
Richard Hames
Money down the drain.
Tag: financialisation
Can Capitalism Solve Its Crises? Interview With Mariana Mazzucato
What can the Apollo Missions teach us about dealing with the major crises of the 21st century? And why are politicians so eager to dwell on caricatures of the public rather than engage in problem-solving – from climate change to housing and education? Aaron Bastani speaks to author and academic Mariana Mazzucato to find out.
Our Financialised Care System is Built on a House of Cards – We Urgently Need to Rebuild It
Annie Quick and Alice Martin
How to Save the World From Financialisation: Interview With Grace Blakeley
Grace Blakeley’s new book “Stolen: How to Save the World From Financialisation” offers a history of finance-led growth, and argues democratic socialism is the only way to escape it.
A Decade of Crisis
On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Richard Seymour and Aaron Bastani: a decade since the collapse of Lehman Brothers, and the ensuing economic, political and social crisis, what’s changed? And were obituaries for neoliberalism written too soon?
Profits For Investors: The Political Economy of PFI
Grace Blakeley
False Sense of Securities: The Financialisation of the Housing Market
Tom Feary
Dismantle, Decolonise, Democratise – Fighting Neoliberalism in the University
Ash Sarkar talks to Harry Stopes and James Eastwood casualisation in higher education and what students, lecturers and workers can do to resist it.
Barts Health: The Real-Life Consequences of PFI in the NHS
Carol Saunders
Housing in London – Everyone is Miserable
In light of recent dystopian visions from Luxury housing developers Aaron asks who exactly is the current system benefitting?
Indignant… to what end? Private Island Reviewed
Tom Blackburn
Where Will We Live?
On this week’s show Aaron and James discuss James Meek’s recent piece in the London Review of Books: ‘Where will we live?’
Is There Such a Thing as ‘The Real Economy’?
On this week’s show Aaron Bastani and James Butler discuss the idea of the ‘real economy’ as being independent from the supposedly ‘unreal’ financial economy. Does this binary still cohere with the observable workings of contemporary production in the 21st century?
Universities and Financialisation
On this week’s show James Butler and Aaron Bastani are joined by Andrew McGettigan, as they discuss the financialisation of the UK higher education sector.