Climate Crisis
Reuters: Draft EU methane strategy shies away from binding emissions standards
More of the EU’s Green (not really) Deal. Read here
Year: 2020
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Tracing the roots of progressive views on the duty to work
Part 3 of a series. There are a number of interesting thoughts concerning a very divisive topic. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – US Federal Reserve statement signals a new phase in the paradigm shift in macroeconomics
For macroeconomics, we might think of progress as occurring one crisis at a time Read here
Finance
Marshall Auerback – Why Courts Across the World Are Ruling That the Gig Economy Is Paving the Road to Serfdom
Companies have consistently sought to deny their workers traditional benefits via labour law loopholes that the courts are rapidly closing. Marshall Auerback is a market analyst and commentator This article was produced by Economy for […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Something Remarkable just Happened this August: How the Pandemic has Sped up the Passage to Post-Capitalism
It is daunting how everyone seems to want to ignore the acute crisis in which we find ourselves Yanis Varoufakis, a former finance minister of Greece, is leader of the MeRA25 party and Professor of […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – Socialist or Capitalist—What Is China’s Model, Exactly?
An interesting take not only on China, but the USSR and Europe as well. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate […]
Corruption
Murray Scown, Kimberly Nicholas, Mark Brady – EU subsidies benefit big farms while underfunding greener and poorer plots – new research
Jaromir Chalabala/Shutterstock Murray Scown, Utrecht University; Kimberly Nicholas, Lund University, and Mark Brady, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences The Common Agricultural Policy, or CAP, is the European Union’s largest budget item. For the €60 billion […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – A Marxist Theory of Inflation
Marx: “A general rise in the rate of wages would result in a fall of the general rate of profit, but not affect the prices of commodities.” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City […]
Finance
npr: Former Uber Executive Charged With Paying ‘Hush Money’ To Conceal Massive Breach
When only money matters, then crime is irrelevant. On the other hand we see this constantly in corporate crime always ending with: “Corporation X paid a fine of Y billion dollars, but did not admit […]
Economics
John Harvey – Exchange Rate Theory: Is it as Horrifically Boring as it Sounds?
Join Professor John Harvey, a leading Post-Keynesian economist, as he explores the world of exchange rates and how the largest (and most volatile) market on the planet is understood by orthodox economics.