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 condition
ADHD 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 violence
Priti 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 obvious
The question is, why haven’t they been implemented yet?
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Published in: ourEconomy: OpinionourEconomy editors’ highlights 2021
Our 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 Europe
The Dutch image of a progressive paradise is just good PR – you only have to look at its record on the climate