It is wrong to treat financial capitalism as the dysfunctional child of neoliberalism and so misdirect a progressive policy focus.
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In our ‘Europe2025’ series, Mary Kaldor argues that developing substantive democracy in Europe to tame neoliberal globalisation must be the Leitmotif for the coming European term.
As Trump reclaims the White House, Germany’s coalition collapses. Explore how these seismic events signal a shift in global power.
A paradox that lies at the heart of capitalism is that economies need consumers to be confident spenders of money on the one hand, while on the other workers’ must…
The Global South must redefine industrial policy to build new productive capabilities and address escalating global challenges.
Confederation, the new force on the far right in Poland which broke through in the parliamentary elections, is the party of (male) privilege, not precarity.
In the neoliberal era, economics marginalised the social sciences. But, Sheri Berman writes, only politics can tame capitalism’s chaotic gyrations.
Margaret Thatcher’s ghost haunts global politics as leaders worldwide embrace her “no alternative” mantra, leaving citizens trapped in a system that refuses to acknowledge its own ideology.
Two books focused on Britain address shifting class configurations and go back to the drawing board on a hegemonic project.
Economic determinism has appealed, at various times, to some on the left and on the right. Either way it avoids facing the choices politics entails.
The renewed polarisation between Macron and Le Pen in the presidential election conceals a pas de deux.
Kate Pickett explains how to turn the vicious circle of inequality and social mistrust into a virtuous one.
2016 was already quite miserable in so many respects; 2017 promises to get even worse. Looking at the chamber of horrors President-elect Trump is putting together and assuming that he…
Economic policy has predominantly been run on neoliberal lines, notably since the 1970s. This trend has manifested itself in the liberalization of markets, cuts in public investment, de-regulation, privatization and…
Social democracy in Europe is not in good shape. Perhaps the main reason for social democratic parties losing support has been their perceived association with austerity policies. Where, however, the…
At a Nordic-Baltic Development Forum meeting, held in Riga some years ago, there arose a lively controversy on the relative merits of the Swedish (Nordic) model, on the one hand,…
A new Italian government is in the making, with an unprecedented alliance between the Five Stars Movement (33% of votes in the March 2018 elections; 36% of seats in the…