15 December 2018 by Eric Toussaint , The Medium
Eric Toussaint talks to The Medium.
The discourse in mainstream media and by governments consists of repeating that there is too much public debt, too much public expenditure, that States must pay their debts and reduce their expenditure. With the CADTM, we are raising the questions of where those debts come from, whether the objectives for which debts were contracted were legitimate, and whether they were contracted in a legal and legitimate manner. This is our approach, and this way of looking at things is not present in mainstream media. They claim it is not related to their reality.
is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
2 April 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Esther Vivas , Catherine Samary , Costas Lapavitsas , Stathis Kouvelakis , Tijana Okić , Nathan Legrand , Alexis Cukier , Jeanne Chevalier , Yayo Herrero
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 9)
Domination of the United States on the World Bank2 April 2020, by Eric Toussaint
31 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint , Henri Wilno
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Why the 1953 cancellation of German debt won’t be reproduced for Greece and Developing Countries27 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
Banks are weapons of mass destruction
To confront capitalism’s multifaceted crisis the bankers must be expropriated and the banks socialised26 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
19 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 7)
Why the Marshall Plan ?19 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 6)
SUNFED versus World Bank12 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
5 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
Series: 1944-2020, 76 years of interference from the World Bank and the IMF (Part 5)
Early conflicts between the UN and the World Bank/IMF tandem4 March 2020, by Eric Toussaint
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