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In the West, particularly the English-speaking world, neoliberalism seemed to easily replace the collectivist values of the full employment era that followed the Second World War. It constructed a world where individualism was prioritised over society, even though it claimed that society (all of us) would be better off by pursuing our own greedy interests.…

This weekly report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. Signs I come across I had to go down into central…

The social instability in France is now spreading throughout Europe. Already there are mass protests in Spain and Portugal, Belgium, Italy, and Albania. In France, initially students began protesting over conditions in the schooling system, but the grievances and parties involved have broadened out and the increasingly chaotic scenes in Paris have spread out to…

The labour market contraction that I have been signalling for the last three months continued in September. The rising unemployment rate and the declining employment levels are all down to the work of the RBA and its ridiculous interest rate increases. Given the lag in interest rates impacting on the real economy, the current labour…

This weekly report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. Kurama – the hot spring that isn’t! I have resisted travelling…