Laura Basu is openDemocracy's economics editor. She is the author of Media Amnesia: Rewriting the Economic Crisis and co-editor of The Media & Austerity.
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Published in: ourEconomy: FeatureAttention deficit disorder, the anticapitalist conditionADHD is the neurological condition of late capitalism. But it’s also its exterminating angel
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionThe Rwanda deal is yet another act of colonial violencePriti Patel’s new policy is extreme, but Britain’s borders were designed to protect the spoils of empire. The whole...
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Published in: ourEconomy: AnalysisThe solutions to the global inflation crisis are blindingly obviousThe question is, why haven’t they been implemented yet?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionourEconomy editors’ highlights 2021Our lives may have been put on hold, but our planet’s crises – and our journalism – haven’t stopped
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Published in: Home: OpinionWhat Trevor Noah missed when he accused US police of breaking ‘social contract’I can’t help but wonder if ‘The Daily Show’ host has read ‘The Racial Contract’ by Charles Mills. It helped me...
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionForget tulips and windmills, the Netherlands is the dirty old man of EuropeThe Dutch image of a progressive paradise is just good PR – you only have to look at its record on the climate