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Phil Mullan
Making a crisis out of a Greek drama
ESSAY: To overcome the Eurozone crisis, we should declare war on the fatalist notion that sluggish growth is the ‘New Normal’.
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| Wednesday 15 June 2011 |
Nikos Sotirakopoulos
No politics please, we’re trying to protest!
A Greek student reports on how ideology has been expelled from the anti-government protests in Athens and elsewhere.
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| Friday 20 May 2011 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
The Malthusians who masquerade as Marxists
The alternatives to the mythical creed of ‘neo-liberalism’ offered by David Harvey and other radical authors sound far, far worse.
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| Tuesday 17 May 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
What about a Rally For Economic Growth?
The UK economy is in big trouble, but Saturday's pro-cuts demo in London largely missed the point.
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| Monday 21 February 2011 |
James Woudhuysen
Big Pharma, small ambition
Pfizer’s decision to close its UK research facility was born of an industry-wide angst about medical discovery.
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| Tuesday 25 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Why do greens keep mentioning the war?
We should all welcome The New Home Front: it reveals how nutty and mean-spirited environmentalists really are.
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| Friday 21 January 2011 |
Sean Collins
Who are the real ‘devils’ of the recession?
For all the blame heaped on immoral bankers, it was poor profitability in the productive industries that fed the Wall Street monster.
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| Tuesday 11 January 2011 |
Rob Lyons
Produce more food not fewer people
It is not rising population levels that lead to food-price crises - it is economic underdevelopment.
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| Monday 20 December 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Freakonomics: more self-help than economics
The movie of the best-selling book is a popular taster of a worrying obsession with individual behaviour.
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| Monday 6 December 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Tax inspectors against capitalism? Now that is rich
The rise of the radical tax inspectors, chasing after ‘tax dodgers’ Philip Green and Vodafone, reveals the parlous state of left-wing thinking.
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| Thursday 21 October 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
It’s not just Tories who want austerity
We can’t make a convincing case against austerity without challenging today’s cultural aversion to prosperity.
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| Wednesday 20 October 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Five BS arguments that should be cut
George Osborne’s spending review is neither a Thatcherite assault on ‘the vulnerable’ nor a sparkling solution to our economic woes.
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| Thursday 14 October 2010 |
Sean Collins
The truth about the Currency Wars
America should get its own economic house in order rather than blame the slump on China’s currency antics.
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| Wednesday 6 October 2010 |
Sean Collins
Wall Street 2: we’re all Gordon Gekkos now
In Oliver Stone’s sequel, released in British cinemas today, it’s no longer only the pinstriped bankers who are sinfully greedy - it’s all of us.
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| Wednesday 6 October 2010 |
Rob Lyons
How Ireland became a giant Ponzi scheme
The fall of the Irish economy throws some much-needed light on what lies behind the current economic recession.
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| Tuesday 28 September 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Yes, Vince Cable is an anti-capitalist…
...but of the narrow-minded, misanthropic, austerity-loving variety, not the future-oriented Marxist kind.
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| Wednesday 15 September 2010 |
Brendan O’Neill
Come out from under the comfort blanket of class politics
Why both the left and right are fantasising about a new Winter of Discontent, and why spiked isn’t.
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| Thursday 12 August 2010 |
Mick Hume
An economic manic depression
Sudden mood swings in the debate on recoveries and double-dip recessions are symptoms of a more profound economic and political malaise.
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| Wednesday 11 August 2010 |
Daniel Ben-Ami
Why is the bible of capitalism cheering on Chinese workers?
Daniel Ben-Ami is not convinced by the outbreak of workers’ solidarity in The Economist, the FT and amongst writers normally so fond of austerity.
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| Friday 16 July 2010 |
Sean Collins
Why more really is more
A vital new book calls for a counter-offensive against the idea that economic growth and mass prosperity are no longer desirable.
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