There is a saying that when something is punishable by a fine, it really means “legal, for a price”. Rogue UK employers seem to take this to heart. A shocking investigation by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism published this month shows the penalty system has barely been enforced: out of more than 4,800 firms fined since […]
Tag: politics
Originally published for Jacobin. Ever since Robert Brenner published his essay “The Economics of Global Turbulence” in 1998, there has been a wide-ranging debate about his understanding of the period since the 1970s as a “long downturn.” Seth Ackerman and Aaron Benanav have recently been extending this debate in Jacobin. Some of the claims that Benanav puts forward in his reply to Ackerman, largely […]
Matthew Cole 