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Chartbook on Shutdown #4 – Neither Chernobyl Nor Lehman

September 22, 2021

Watching the world watching China’s Evergrande crisis As John Authors argues in one of his latest columns, there is little doubt that anxiety about the

Chartbook on Shutdown #3: Why does the World Bank care about its bond rating?

September 8, 2021

The Alice in Wonderland world of multilateral development finance. As the advanced economies rebound from the pandemic shock of 2020, what is being exposed is

Chartbook on Shutdown #2: Writing in medias res

September 4, 2021

… history in the thick of it. Subscribe now Shutdown is appearing next week. To accompany the launch I am doing a series of pieces

Has Covid ended the neoliberal era?

September 2, 2021

The year 2020 exposed the risks and weaknesses of the market-driven global system like never before. It’s hard to avoid the sense that a turning

Chartbook on Shutdown: Keynes and why we can afford anything we can do.

September 1, 2021

Shutdown is out next week. Order it here (if in the US). Shutdown is pacy. It is the shortest and most fast-moving book I’ve written.

What if the Coronavirus Crisis Is Just a Trial Run?

September 1, 2021

Almost two years since the novel coronavirus began to circulate through the human population, what lessons have we learned? And what do those lessons portend

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