By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES, Nov 2 (Reuters) - At a family-owned factory in Buenos Aires, a machine used to wrap packets of colored socks sits silent. Eseka still produces nearly 3 million items ...

There is no greater obstacle to progressive change than the idea of austerity. It has dominated economic policy in Europe, resulting in continued slow growth (or outright contraction) and high ...

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Austerity in the U.K. is here to stay. The Bank of England has warned that the country is facing the longest recession since records began, predicting that the economic slump will extend well into ...

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I. IntroductionAt the core of modern fiscal policy lies a structural cognitive gap: the tendency to treat the fiscal ...

This is an interesting little spat happening out in the econobloggingsphere, a shouting match about whether there's been austerity or not. It started with Matt Yglesias, then Angus had a go at him and ...

Somewhat inevitably, austerity looks set to be one of the key themes of the upcoming election. Five years after the UK coalition led us down this route, Labour is coming under pressure from the Left ...