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T. Piketty, Y. Varoufakis, et al: Europe must support the UN proposals for debt restructuring

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8 september 2015 – Negentien vooraanstaande economen, waaronder Thomas Piketty, James Galbraith, Yanis Varoufakis en Heiner Flassbeck, schrijven in een open brief dat Europa de voorstellen over nationale schuldherstructurering van de Verenigde Naties zal moeten steunen. De voorstellen worden op 10 september goedgekeurd of afgewezen.

Lees de open brief op de website Y. Varoufakis

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S. Sassen: Shrinking economies, growing expulsions

9 januari 2015 – “What takes extreme forms in some countries, including Greece, is actually taking place in milder ways in many developed countries considered to have recovered from the crisis–from the US to the Netherlands”, argues Saskia Sassen, professor of sociology at Columbia University, New York, in her new book  Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Here is part one.

Lees het complete artikel:Saskia Sassen in Open Democracy.net

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T. Worstall: Neither Greece nor Finland should be in the Euro

14 juni 2015 – Tim Worstall argues in Forbes that “the eurozone is simply too large… The euro is failing and it’s failing for exactly the reason that we all said it would. It’s too large a currency area to be optimal.”

 

 

Read the whole article titled Finland’s Problem Is The Same As Greece’s; Neither Should Be In The Euro As Krugman Says at: Forbes: article T. Worstall

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