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Opinion: Don’t Fight the Last War: Why the Left Needs to Look Beyond Austerity

James Meadway

Covid-19 is a crisis on a scale never seen before in peacetime. But, James Meadway argues, the left risks losing the arguments of the future if it mistakes the political battles of the next decade for the battles of the last.

Novara FM: The Economy Goes on Holiday

James Butler is joined by Will Davies, to discuss the 'holiday of exchange value' and the political economy of the pandemic.

Analysis: Pandemic Insolvency: Why This Economic Crisis Will Be Different

Bue Rübner Hansen

Many states - now including the UK and US - are beginning to act in ways that contradict not just the neoliberal script, but the crisis management strategies of the global financial crisis. Bue Rübner Hansen asks why.

Novara FM: Russia Without Putin?

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Tony Wood to discuss his new book 'Russia Without Putin'.

Robots Aren’t Coming for Our Jobs – Capitalists Are

Grace Blakeley

We often here about how automation is coming for our jobs whether we like it or not, but automation isn't an impersonal force of history - it's a political process with contestable consequences, argues Grace Blakeley.

Does High Private Debt Hold the Seeds of a New Recession?

Grace Blakeley

This government has relied on cheap private credit to keep the economy afloat, but continued growth in household debt is just adding to the problem that contributed to the last financial crisis.

Novara FM: Taking It Back: Public Ownership in the 21st Century

On #NovaraFM, James Butler is joined by Grace Blakeley, Aaron Bastani and Michael Walker to discuss public ownership from nationalisation to socialisation – and what a truly democratised economy might look like.

What is Growth? 6 Things You Should Know

John Evans

It's the political buzzword of our times, but how much to do you know about where growth comes from, who it benefits and what it ignores?

10 Ways Official Inflation Stats Are Masking Rising Inequality

James Meadway

New official inflation figures say the rate of price increases is falling, yet inequality is reaching new heights. The stats are hiding the real decline in living standards, especially for the poorest ten percent, but how?

The Ineptitude of Chuka Umunna: 5 Signs Labour are Scraping the Barrel

Dan Whittall

"Cities are on the march," declares shadow business secretary Chuka Umunna. That's easy for Blue Labour's anti-squatter pin-up to say, but here's why he's failed on the basics of urban political economy and why his ineptitude means Labour are scraping the ideas barrel.

Losing sight of the bigger picture: 5 Lessons from the Rise of Ukip

Christian Gilliam

With the recent media focus on Ukip’s apparent ‘earthquake’, complete with questions over an in-out EU referendum and loads of pictures of Nigel Farage drinking in pubs, it’s easy to lose sight of the role Ukip and the ‘Europe question’ are playing within the global political economy.

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