Brave New Europe
braveneweurope.com · Group blog · on HN since 2020
Brave New Europe is a site of left-leaning commentary on European and global economics, politics, and the gig economy.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for economics and regulation pieces, such as Steve Keen on private debt and a Wikimedia article, and one suggests it for tech-adjacent coverage.
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- 1The Uber Bubble1 people · 414 points · first shared 2022 · 539 comments on HN
- 2The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine1 people · 5 points · first shared 2022 · 1 comments on HN
- 3What the Oligarchs have learnt from billion dollar asset seizures1 people · 4 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 4Jeffrey Sachs – Speech at EU Parliament1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · 2 comments on HN
- 5Norway Isn't Bowing to Threats of Capital Flight1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 6The Problems of Authenticity Under Capitalism1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 7The Gig Economy Project – Analysis1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 8Michael olenick wikipedias deep ties to big tech1 people · first shared 2021
- 9Michael von der schulenburg hajo funke harald kujat peace for ukraine1 people · first shared 2024
- 10Steve keen the delusional leaders of the eurozone1 people · first shared 2020
- 11Branko milanovic the rule of nihilists1 people · first shared 2022
- 12Steven keen 4c of global warming is optimal even nobel prize winners are getting things catastrophically wrong1 people · first shared 2020
- 13Steve keen the euro is a suicide pact1 people · first shared 2020
- 14Hubert horan1 people · first shared 2022
- 15Spain pioneering criminal complaint for fake self employment could lead to jail time for glovo bosses1 people · first shared 2025
What HN people wrote when they linked it
Chyzwar · 2025-03-08
Some ruling can be blocked for years in “legal proceeding” for example Uber with plenty evidence was ignored while in the same time European Glove was fighting crinal prosecution.
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2022/jul/10/uber-files-leak-reveals-g…
https://braveneweurope.com/spain-pioneering-criminal-complaint-for-fak…
schmudde · 2023-11-14
You might try Brave New Europe? They don't look at tech specifically like EFF, but tech touches their stories on economics, regulation, and the media: https://braveneweurope.com/?s=tech
smaddox · 2023-01-19
Private debt dwarfed public debt until very recently, and it's still significany higher: https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-what-is-the-role-of-public-debt-…
Also GDP is a terrible proxy for economic prosperity. A broken window adds to GDP, but subtracts from prosperity. If we had a better proxy for prosperity, it would be easier to see if government debt was actually net negative or net positive effect. As is, all arguments one way or the other are speculation and ideology.
xanthor · 2024-02-08
What do you think about the conclusions of this piece published by a former UN official, a former NATO military official, and an academic?
https://braveneweurope.com/michael-von-der-schulenburg-hajo-funke-hara…
akolbe · 2022-09-04
What do you make of the statement here?
https://braveneweurope.com/michael-olenick-wikipedias-deep-ties-to-big…
"The vast majority of Wikimedia’s value to ordinary people – the website we know and use – costs the firm about 30 percent of their $112.5 million operating budget ($33.75 million) to maintain according to Lisa Seitz Gruwell, Chief Advancement Officer at Wikimedia."
Gibbon1 · 2022-07-12
Your comment makes me think of this essay by Branko Milanovic
Particularly this line: Xi sees the break-up of the Soviet Union and the end of the CPSU as the result of “ideological nihilism”: the ruling strata have ceased to believe in the advantages and the value of the system, but lacked any other ideological coordinates within which to situate their thinking.
https://braveneweurope.com/branko-milanovic-the-rule-of-nihilists
My personal term to describe the players in Britain's politics is functional incompetence. Which is while they are adept at gaining and holding on to office, they are hapless at performing the actual duties of those offices.
mst · 2022-04-18
For those of you interested in parts 2 and 3 there's links to all three parts here: https://braveneweurope.com/tag/hubert-horan
stragio · 2021-06-02
Why it's going to be hard to go for green energy:
https://braveneweurope.com/alf-hornborg-a-globalised-solar-powered-fut…
js8 · 2020-07-09
> Wikipedia quotes studies that put the estimated aggregate impact at losing about 0% to 20% of world GDP. That's comparable eg to moving from NYC to a place with average US GDP per capita.
That's basically Nordhaus' idiotic argument. Agriculture is only about 3% of GDP, so it looks like we can take that hit, no problem. Except - if we have no food, there is no civilization. See https://braveneweurope.com/steven-keen-4c-of-global-warming-is-optimal…
Measuring climate change impacts on the economy only by total GDP is a really bad idea. You really can't neglect the dependencies in the economic production, especially on agriculture.
skrtskrt · 2020-03-31
Steve Keen is a good source on this:
https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-the-delusional-leaders-of-the-eu…
https://braveneweurope.com/steve-keen-the-euro-is-a-suicide-pact