Media and e comment

   
 

1. BBC 3rd Eye Programme on Vietnam: Interview & commentary

In January 2011 John Weeks was interviewed as part of the BBC World Service programme, Third Eye. The programme considered the rapid development of Vietnam and its political and economic sustainability (link here view and download).

2. Social Europe Journal
Those Lazy Pigs: Decyphering the euro blame game

A UK Recovery Programme: Go Keynesian Part 1 and Part 2

Breaking news: The working class caused the Italian crisis (10 Nov 2011)

Fostering Manufactures in Developed Countries (2 Nov 2011)

IMF-World Bank Meetings: How the mighty have fallen (5 Oct 2011)

Cost of Disasters, Natural and Unnatural (9 September 2011)

How to calculate the US deficit 19/08/11

Size of the US Public Debt 12/08/11 [Socialist Project] [Global Research]

Can the UK escape 5 years of recession? 5/08/11, with M Burke & G Irvin

Obama and the Weimar Republic 5/08/11

Reviving a progressive economics 10/06/11

"America": Consumerism & the end of citizenship 18/4/11, with E Dore

Unemployment: Too much regulation or lack of demand? 29/03/11

Public expenditure and the affordability fallacy 18/01/11

Ireland and bond markets 29/11/10

The EU's Political Economy Problem (VIDEO) 26/10/10
A Social Democratic Political Economy (VIDEO) 21/10/10

3. RealNews Network
The euro crisis in 7 easy diagrams

Showdown in Wisconsin

Videos: Speculation and Wall Street, Road to Dictatorship, New Financial Crisis on the Way, Is the euro crisis over (panel)

4. Other

The Guardian: Public Investment Bank for the UK (full proposal)

Socialist Project: Occupy Wall Street or Why bother the Bankers? (photographs)

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Socialist Economic Bulletin

Research on money and finance

Left Foot Forward

 

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