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Michael Roberts – The roaring twenties repeated?

April 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

The latest data show that in the US nearly 20% of all firms are in the ‘zombie’ category, while in Europe it is as high as 40%.  While these firms remain, they keep average profitability […]

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Brink Lindsey: The Dead End of Small Government

April 18, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Intellectual framing of free markets and limited government appeals strongly to the rich, incumbent businesses, and those inclined to populist resentment – and not so much to anybody else Brink Lindsey is a vice president […]

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José Mujica – “Digital civilisation is creating a real disease in representative democracy and I don’t know what the cure is”

April 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

According to Mujica, this pandemic has brought out the worst side of humanity by accentuating the selfishness of rich countries and laying bare the lack of solidarity between people. He says that the middle classes, […]

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Walden Bello – After Neoliberalism… What?

April 17, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Neoliberalism is dying, with the radical left and the far-right as only contenders to bring about another system, says Alternative Nobel Prize winner, sociology professor Walden Bello at the recent climate conference on the context […]

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Michael Hudson – America’s Neoliberal Financialization Policy vs. China’s Industrial Socialism

April 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why China is anathema to the USA Michael Hudson is the author of Killing the Host (published in e-format by CounterPunch Books and in print by Islet). His new book is J is For Junk Economics.   Cross-posted […]

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George Kerevan – Scots Need a Say on fast Changing EU

April 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Nicola Sturgeon has announced that Scots would not get a vote on whether to join the EU in an independent state. We would join subject to negotiations between elites in Edinburgh and Brussels, with no […]

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Corruption

Abby Innes – Corporate state capture: the degree to which the British state is porous to business interests is exceptional among established democracies

April 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

While UK governments have refrained from intervening in the private sector, they enable ever greater business access to public authority and revenue. Successive policies have led to corporate state capture. Abby Innes is an Assistant […]

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Finance

Alexander Zaitchik – How Bill Gates Impeded Global Access to Covid Vaccines

April 16, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine. Read here

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Finance

Gig Economy Project – In a landmark case, an Amsterdam court overturns the automated firing of 6 Uber drivers

April 15, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

A court in Amsterdam has ordered Uber, the ride-hail platform, to re-instate six drivers and pay compensation, on the basis that they were wrongly fired because the decision was made automatically by the company’s algorithm. […]

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Michael Roberts – IMF and debt: a new consensus?

April 15, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

If there is a new ‘consensus’ on international lending and economic support by multi-national agencies it sits on the surface of talking; when the walking begins, nothing has really changed. Michael Roberts is an Economist […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

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Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

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Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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