Yet again, we are being told that there are special economic laws that mean that there are perfect and imperfect tax rates. The theory concerned is highly flawed, and it isn’t even showing the thing [...]
Guglielmo Carchedi and I have been working on a theory of inflation for several years. We completed a detailed paper some time ago which was accepted for publication by a Marxist journal. However, publication takes [...]
How do we explain the self-defeating and self-harming policies of Western states? Pascal Lottaz is a Swiss academic in Japan, Associate Professor at Kyoto University, working on neutrality in International Relations. He also runs the [...]
In Abby Martin’s new film, ‘Earth’s Greatest Enemy,’ she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace. In their most [...]
Millions of people around the world will now find themselves even more exposed to the criminal actions of predatory states. Unlike Khan’s accuser, they are unlikely to ever get their day in court Jonathan Cook [...]
There is still no evidence of an AI-driven productivity boom after three consecutive quarters of weak productivity growth. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from CEPR [...]
The U.S. ultimately will have to capitulate, with the result that Iran becomes a regional power. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Stategic [...]
Stein‘s Law: “if a thing cannot go on forever, it will stop.“ Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack “Trying to understand the world” Most people have heard at least a version of what is called Stein‘s Law: [...]
Reviewed by Branko Milanović The just published book by Christian Christiansen Designing Global Economic Equality: The Making and Unmaking of Global Egalitarian Policies at the United Nations provides an intellectual review of the history of [...]
