Tautas Partija and sharks with lasers

The general congress of Tautas Partija has taken place today (see pictures of the event on the left and below). In this ocasion, its propositions to fight the crisis were presented. It consists of ten points reflecting the needs/opinions of the people responsible for the current crisis. Generally speaking, they aren’t able to go beyond [...]

A conversation with Galbraith

I don’t have time to post some comments I would like by now. Anyway, here there’s a nice interview with John Kenneth Galbraith. Hope it helps to open minds in Latvia. Enjoy!

Economic dogmas and development: bye-bye Latvia!

Development has been one of the most sensitive question in economics. However, in the last 40 years it hasn’t discussed properly, as reason gave place to fetish. The first point is that there is fashion in the Academy and it’s cyclical. Specifically about economics, in the capitalist block we have seen – in the last [...]