03.02.2012

Daniel Daianu

Markets and society

When high finance cripples the economy and corrodes democracy

The current financial crisis is not confined to economies, writes former Romanian finance minister Daniel Daianu. The erosion of the middle class, the spread of extremism and the threat to democracy are some of the more obvious social effects demanding attention.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-07-21-daianu-en.html

Stewart Lansley

"Managed" v "market capitalism": The record

The thirty-year long experiment in market capitalism has failed to unleash a new era of enterprise, entrepreneurialism and dynamism, argues Stewart Lansley. Examining key areas in which the market model was supposed to deliver, he finds that, on almost every count, post-war "managed capitalism" outperformed it successor.

http://www.eurozine.com/articles/2011-12-07-lansley-en.html