Economics
Chris Dillow: The decline of the impartial spectator
Chris Dillow describes the elite that is determining our lives – and our destruction. Read here
Month: December 2021
Climate Crisis
Gustavo Prieto – The Los Cedros Forest has Rights
The Ecuadorian Constitutional Court Affirms the Rights of Nature This may appear an arcane topic, but the question of the rule of law over the rule of profit with regard to nature rights appears to […]
Economics
Max Roser – Global economic inequality: what matters most for your living conditions is not who you are, but where you are
Whether or not you are born into an industrialised economy matters very much for your living conditions Max Roser is Programme Director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Global Development at the University of Oxford, […]
Economics
Sergio Cesaratto – Those Italian subsidies for Germany
Italy has paid for certain ill-advised policies of the ECB – influenced by Berlin, the dominant power in Europe – with dozens of points of additional debt/GDP and finding itself ever poorer, while Germany symmetrically […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – World inequality
“The rise of imperialism as the ‘latest stage’ of capitalism has delivered increased inequality of income globally.” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog […]
Climate Crisis
Transport & Environment: In tests, cars powered by e-petrol pollute the air as much as petrol
Running cars on e-fuels, which have been touted as a way to prolong the life of the internal combustion engine, will not alleviate air pollution problems. Read here
Austerity
Jason Hickel – The Age of Imperialism is Not Over—But We Can End It
Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: Bank of England finds QE did not increase bank lending: who would have thought
Once again we learn that QE has not helped the real economy, just bailed out the banks and corporations Read here
Economics
Branko Milanović – The Summit of Democracies is a wrong idea (for the world)
Posturing at this grand scale bodes ill for the world. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules the World” […]
Economics
Stewart Lansley – Why luxury capitalism is the enemy of social progress
Capitalism has little to do with a free market. It is about extraction, at the expense of the planet and its inhabitants. Stewart Lansley is a visiting fellow at the University of Bristol, a Council […]