Thursday, March 29, 2018

Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event? BROOKINGS

Was the Arab Spring a black-swan event?

CEPR | "Independent report on the Greek official debt" March '18

PolicyInsight92.pdf

A spectre continues to haunt Greece and no
less its creditors. Under plausible projections for
growth, interest rates and fiscal performance, the
government’s debt is unsustainable, as its official
creditors have effectively acknowledged.. 

Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Yiannis Kokkinakis | " ... the political economy of reforms in Europe" (pdf)

Kokkinakis83.pdf



from the Adstract: " ...  I shall also focus on a less self-evident parameter
of recent developments: the prevalence of technocratic solutions, and the retreat of
political processes and elective bodies in the formulation and implementation of
economic policy in Europe"

Monday, March 19, 2018

Italy Is the West’s Future – Foreign Policy

 Italy Is the West’s Future – Foreign Policy

On one level, you might argue that the Italian election was classic Italian politics: a festa of successful insurgent outsiders, overturned insiders, and anti-establishment populism that is entirely in keeping with a national tradition of general political chaos. But on another level, those with an eye on the deeper currents will rightly see the events in Italy as a symptom of more profound changes that are sweeping through Europe’s creaking party systems, and that still have a long way to run.

‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian



‘I made Steve Bannon’s psychological warfare tool’: meet the data war whistleblower | News | The Guardian



Cambridge Analytica and all that!