Economics
Tribune: Adrienne Buller and Benjamin Braun – Asset Manager Capitalism
Where the power really lies in big corporations – and whether worker ownership can change the game Listen here
Month: July 2021
Economics
PRIME: Ann Pettifor – Quantitative Easing: how the world got hooked on magicked-up money
Going cold turkey would finish off a dysfunctional global financial system that’s now hopelessly addicted to emergency infusions. The only solution is surgery on the system itself. Read here Alec Monopoly, Breaking the Bank mixed […]
Climate Crisis
Phil Leeke – The Philosophy of ‘As IF’
Sometimes a good rant brings us back to our senses. Phil Leeke is a Faculty Member at the University of Liverpool, English Language Centre In Geoffrey Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale a student plays a joke on […]
Economics
Eurostat – Household real consumption per capita continues decreasing in both euro area and EU
Still does not sound like a V Recovery Read here
Austerity
Alfredo Saad-Filho – From Pandemic with Neoliberal Characteristics to Social Conflict
There is no doubting that the pandemic has had a major impact on global capitalism. But what can we say about the new course of the system? Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that the shift away from […]
Climate Crisis
The Barents Observer: Norway offers oil firms 70 new Barents Sea exploration blocks
“Are there any adults home?” Greenpeace asks rhetorically after the Norwegian Government on Wednesday announced this year’s licensing round. Read here The Goliat oil rig for the Barents Sea. Photo: Thomas Nilsen
Austerity
Prabhat Patnaik – Why Neoliberalism Needs Neofascists
The neofascist assault on democracy is a last-ditch effort on the part of neoliberal capitalism to rescue itself from crisis. The only solution is a decisive retreat from globalized finance. Read here
Economics
Bill Mitchell – It is time we all moved on from the debt and deficit hysteria
The hypocrisy is ineffable. Those same journalists and politicians who care nothing about the destroyed planet our children will inherit cannot write and say enough about the debt – which need not even be debt […]
Climate Crisis
Branko Milanović – Is Norway the new East India Company?
A brilliant comparison, especially as Norway is held up as a paradigm of reducing CO2. It even has a $1.32 trillion wealth fund with which to build a carbon free economy. Branko Milanović is an […]
Climate Crisis
Bill McGuire – An open letter to all climate scientists
Short, but to the point (which is what we need these days). The topic of climate emergency is too great to be politely skirted. Bill McGuire is Professor Emeritus of Geophysical & Climate Hazards at UCL, […]