In the beginning I have to come back to the quartet of the 4+2 connection. Globally, energy related activities produce around 63% of climate-damaging emissions and around 77% of all CO2 emissions. Around 28% of climate-damaging emissions and 36% of CO2 emissions stem from electricity generation and heating. Transport accounts for around one quarter of climate-damaging emissions. The transport sphere depends on oil for 96% of its energy; oil is responsible for over 95% of the emissions caused by transport. More
Archiv der Kategorie: financialisation
Judith Dellheim: Opening
This is the fourth meeting of our EU experts’ discussions and I should like to remind or to inform you, very briefly, about its history and also about the main ideas of this project or its underlying “philosophy”.
Our first EU experts’ discussion has taken place in December 2011. It had the ironic title “Crisis, Crisis, Euro Crisis” and helped to overcome More
Mariana Mortagua: The Espírito Santo (Decrepit) Empire. Blood, Money and Power: The True Story of an Oligarchy
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Stefanie Hürtgen: Transnationalisation & Marginalisation
Please see the post from July 6th and click here
Tina Schivatcheva: Land and Power: Land Grabbing in CEE
Please see the post from 15.4. 2014 and click here
Mirjam Büdenbender: Embracing the Market for the State’s Sake The politics of Financialisation in Post-Socialist Russia – the Case of Housing Finance
Daniela Gabor: Dependent Financialization in CEE Countries
Özge Yaka: Limits of the Core-‐Periphery Model in the Analysis of the Contemporary Political Environment
The core periphery model, which belongs to the language of the pre 1980 era, has recently returned to the academic and political language in the context of the Euro‐zone-crisis. The model, which was originally developed against the modernisation school and Ricardo’s theory of comparative advantages, was aiming to reveal the structural processes and mechanisms which consistently disfavour primary producer countries of the periphery against the industrial western core. More
Claude Serfati: 2014 – A Turning Point in the Economic and Geopolitical Situation
1) The hypothesis laid out in this paper is that a new turn in the international economic and geopolitical situation took place in the last months. On the economic side, not only it appears that the finance capital’s social and economic power has not been seriously dented by the new regulatory framework under way in different countries, but that it goes on thriving on the global bleak macroeconomic situation. Through the last years, mainstream economists’ main concern was EU deflation, a code name for depression. More