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Bitcoin and the dangerous fantasy of ‘apolitical’ money (Yanis Varoufakis) The Civilizing Power of Disaster What happened in Cyprus Abolish deposit insurance, please Rediscovering The Utopian In Europe: An Interview With Philippe Van Parijs Cyprus: handling of the Emergency Liquidity Assistance of Laiki was illegal The generalized resource curse Into the Fire – The Hidden […]

Communism, welfare state – what’s the next big idea? Why Beppe Grillo won in Italy: it wasn’t because of social media Confessions of A Job Destroyer Student Debt Is Perfectly Following the Financial Meltdown Script OuiShare: Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Economy Happy reading!

OuiShare: Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Economy The Norwegian prison where inmates are treated like people Digital capitalism produces few winners France’s work ethic: flâneurs on the treadmill Q&A with Polish Central Bank Governor Marek Belka The case for helicopter money (Martin Wolf) Happy reading!

Obama must face the rise of the robots The Redefinition of Work Massive Political Corruption Causes Outrage in Spain Can internet activism turn into a real political movement? Happy reading!

Perpetual bonds: A clever way to manage the national debt in a time of low interest rates Irish banks at mercy of international paymasters The End of Labor: How to Protect Workers From the Rise of Robots When a man is tired of Paris … Icelandic government wins Icesave dispute against UK and Netherlands Galbraith: […]

Will you leave your job to join the sharing economy? Economics after the crisis: New model army Pre-school lessons for the bankers Documentary takes in lives of young Greek farmers Who will speak up for the universal welfare state now? Why Argentina is now paying for its dangerously successful economic story Happy reading!

The west’s crisis is one of democracy as much as finance (Slavoj Žižek) Services Like Car and Bike Sharing Boost Global Sharing Economy Aaron Swartz & the Dark Side of Movement Building What happens when you introduce a basic income guarantee? Results from a canadian experiment “The idea of central bank independence has always been […]

‘Hartz reforms’: how a benefits shakeup changed Germany Everything You Need to Know About the Crazy Plan to Save the Economy With a Trillion-Dollar Coin Button-Down Central Bank Bets It All UK: A government of millionaires just made the poor poorer – and laughed as they did it Why New Basel Rules Won’t Make Safer […]

“Jobless on voluntary work without payment,” says ex Greek FinMin "Occupy Wall Street turned movements into international networks" An amazing mea culpa from the IMF’s chief economist on austerity What might a world without work look like? Why a “free” market changes everything Happy reading!

What is actually going on in Iceland Revealed: how the FBI coordinated the crackdown on Occupy In an economy not so far, far away French share their way through recession Greece, Basic Income and the European Left Happy reading!