Grahame Thompson is <a href=http://www.open.ac.uk/socialsciences/staff/gthompson/ target=_blank>professor</a> of political economy at The Open University.
A new book offers a fresh illumination of the reasons for the financial crisis and a compelling argument for a policy of taxing those organizations where the ultra rich hide their – for the most part – ill-gotten gains.
A ‘national conversation’ about important matters is becoming almost impossible under these circumstances. Half the population does not want to listen.
Populist nationalisms are replacing social democracy and Christian democracy across Europe. But we cannot, and should not, attempt to resuscitate these traditional models of governance.
Crises always expose the underlying character of situations and events. They are intriguing - even attractive - occasions since they provide a glimpse into the very structure of the system.
The crisis in the international financial system is still unfolding and continued short-term policy firefighting is absolutely necessary. But what about the longer-term response: how should the authorities react in
The issue of "responsibility" has increasingly become a defining feature of the current era of neo-liberal globalisation. At every level of governmental and social policy, and in many
Several years ago I was involved in a discussion with Chinese academic members of the Communist Party about democracy in China. My hosts' knowledge of all the main western
The spectre of "fundamentalism" is haunting Europe. In every faith-tinged controversy, from the Danish cartoons to the French hijab, from British multiculturalism to Dutch language-rules, the word and
Johanna Mendelson Forman and D Austin Hare preview the report of the Kofi Annan-appointed HighLevel Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change, to be published on 2 December 2004, as
The debate on openDemocracy between David Held and Martin Wolf shows that globalisation refuses to die as an issue. Both - and this is true also of other participants in
