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Oct 17, 2024 | 
jacobin.com | Clara Mattei
Austerity is omnipresent. Increases in interest rates, fresh privatizations, ever more flexible labor contracts, cuts to health care and public education, reduced capital gains taxes, and raised taxes on consumption. Every economic reform is presented to us as a necessity: we must tighten our belts, lest our state go bankrupt. We need to be realistic and make difficult choices, as the economic situation requires. A vision of economics understood as a pure, objective, logical science entrances us.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
academic.oup.com | Clara Mattei
Clara E. Mattei’s book is two things at the same time. To begin with the first, it is a history of a period of around a decade in Italy and Britain from the end of the First World War to the restoration of the gold standard by Italy in 1927. It follows recent work by Nicholas Mulder, Jamie Martin, and Adam Tooze in tracking the political horizons opened up as governments gained unprecedented control over the actions of private business during the conflict.
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Jul 25, 2024 | 
etc.se | Clara Mattei
Det finns bilder som inga ord kan uttrycka, och som var och en av oss enkelt kan "konsumera" på sociala medier. En sexåring som reducerats till ett skelett, efter att ha dött av undernäring. En pappa som gråter hysteriskt med sitt blodiga barn i famnen. Barnhuvuden som krossats under rasmassor.
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Jun 29, 2024 | 
realprogressives.org | Clara Mattei |Julie Alberding
Skip to content At Macro N Cheese we’ve been having an ongoing conversation about the need for radical change in the labor movement and the rise of class struggle unionism. Traven Leyshon is president of the Green Mountain Central Labour Council and part of the leadership team of the Vermont State Labour Council. Traven, who has over five decades of labor organizing experience, talks to Steve about the pushback from national labor institutions against Vermont’s newly elected progressive...
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
etc.se | Clara Mattei
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May 2, 2024 | 
etc.se | Clara Mattei
”Våra universitet investerar i stora vapentillverkare och de profiterar direkt på bomberna som släpps över kvinnor och barn i Gaza. Vi på Jewish voice for peace-gruppen är här för att säga: Det kan inte finnas någon frihet om vi inte alla är fria.”Så säger en student till den oberoende tv-stationen Democracy Now. Hundratals studenter vid Columbia University arrangerade, tillsammans med Jews for peace, ett solidaritetsläger den 17 april i protest mot den brutala attacken på det palestinska folket.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
project-syndicate.org | Clara Mattei
NEW YORK – When seeking empathy for their financial woes, most people know better than to talk to an economist. To understand how the field gained a reputation for not caring about social-justice issues requires tracing the origins of the intellectual paradigm that dominates academia economics and public policy today.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
qoshe.com | Clara Mattei
Aa Aa Aa - A + NEW YORK – When seeking empathy for their financial woes, most people know better than to talk to an economist. To understand how the field gained a reputation for not caring about social-justice issues requires tracing the origins of the intellectual paradigm that dominates academia economics and public policy today. In 1921, Maffeo Pantaleoni, widely recognized as one of the architects of today’s mainstream........ © Project Syndicate visit website
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Nov 10, 2023 | 
nexojornal.com.br | Clara Mattei
Parte do que torna a austeridade tão eficaz como conjunto de políticas é que ela se envolve na linguagem da economia honesta e sofrida. Sentimentos vagos como o de “trabalho duro” e o de “parcimônia” dificilmente são novidade; eles têm sido exaltados por economistas desde os dias de Adam Smith, David Ricardo e Thomas Robert Malthus e por seus seguidores atuais, que cultivaram essas máximas como a substância da virtude pessoal e da boa política.
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Aug 3, 2023 | 
amandla.org.za | Busi Mtabane |Clara Mattei
This is an edited extract from a talk which Clara Mattei gave on International and Historical Experiences of Austerity at the Alternative Information and Development Centre. CAPITALISM IS ABOUT CLASS warfare. Capitalism is about winners and losers. There is no harmony in economic relations in our socio-economic system. Austerity is no exception. Austerity is in the DNA of our economic system. It cannot be reduced to bad economic theory, which leads to bad economic policy.
