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Author Archives: Eurocrisis in the Press
Jan 19 2017
Rerouting Globalisation: from economic to human development
Comments Off on Rerouting Globalisation: from economic to human developmentΒy Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso When the different stages of a production process are carried out in different countries, a form of global integration is being developed. The global integration of the production process is usually understood as economic … Continue reading
Posted by: January 19, 2017
Tagged with: China, Economic cycles, economic development, flexicurity, globalisation, growth, human capital, Neoliberalism, unemployment, USA
Dec 20 2016
President Trump and the Politics of Tragedy
5 CommentsBy Roberto Orsi For someone who tries to think in dialectical terms, the catastrophic handling of the immigration crisis in 2015 raised more than just some concern. It appears simply impossible that this kind of blunder could have not generated … Continue reading
Posted by: December 20, 2016
Tagged with: Angela Merkel, Brexit, Nemesis, Political Violence, Tragedy, Trump
Dec 16 2016
Windfall Revenues in Europe: What’s Next?
Comments Off on Windfall Revenues in Europe: What’s Next?By Juergen Braunstein, Marion Labouré and Julius Sen European countries need to start thinking of what to do with windfall tax revenues from multinationals. We argue that there is a need to create a structure addressing the risks relating to … Continue reading
Posted by: December 16, 2016
Tagged with: apple, Ireland, luxembourg, tax, taxation, windfall tax
Dec 9 2016
A View on Brexit from Abroad
3 CommentsBy Henry Freeman Promises of an extra £350m a week, posted on the side of a bus. Doomsday economic predictions from the Remain campaign; the reply, “We’ve had enough of experts!”. Jo Cox MP shot dead in the street, the … Continue reading
Posted by: December 9, 2016
Tagged with: Brexit, Migration Museum Project, Nationalism, Referendum
Nov 15 2016
European Union’s Key Figures
Comments Off on European Union’s Key Figuresby Lucas Juan Manuel Alonso Alonso With the objective to draw some conclusions about macroeconomic stability and economic structure, this article examines for the 28 Member States of the European Union, the following aspects: GDP and AIC per capita, General … Continue reading
Posted by: November 15, 2016
Tagged with: austerity, economic data, Economics, GDP, macroeconomics, national debt
Oct 27 2016
The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future Scenarios
Comments Off on The EU-Turkey Deal: Ambiguities and Future ScenariosBy Pınar Dinç and Irem Aydemir The Arab Spring started the fire in 2011, and ever since the whole MENA region has been in turmoil. The civil war in Syria has quickly become a global one with the ongoing war … Continue reading
Posted by: October 27, 2016
Tagged with: eu-turkey deal, migration, refugee crisis, Syrian refugees, Turkey
Oct 20 2016
Democracy Between Compromise and Control
Comments Off on Democracy Between Compromise and ControlBy Henry Radice The slogan ‘take back control’ was widely credited as a key factor in the UK’s vote to leave the EU on June 23rd. That vote revealed many cleavages in how we understand our democracy. One significant one … Continue reading
Posted by: October 20, 2016
Tagged with: Borders, Brexit, control, Referendum
Oct 14 2016
The Rise of Populism Could Persist as Western society and its Academic Institutions Fail to Promote Critical Thought
1 CommentBy Athanasios Gkoutzioulis On the 4th of May, Donald Trump became the Republican presidential nominee while on the 23rd of June, Nigel Farage’s (and Arron Bank’s) campaign largely contributed to Brexit to the surprise of international public opinion. Trump’s or … Continue reading
Posted by: October 14, 2016
Tagged with: critical thinking, education, populism
Oct 4 2016
The Great Stagnation
1 CommentBy Marion Labouré and Juergen Braunstein The recent Brexit vote, as well as high uncertainty around a number of upcoming elections (e.g., the 2016 US and 2017 French presidential elections), are only symptoms of a larger underlying problem. Voting for … Continue reading
Posted by: October 4, 2016
Tagged with: Euro crisis, Inequality, recession, stagnation, Sweden, top 1%