Economics
Economics
Economics
Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer
Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck – The Case Against Planetary Governance
Democracy is in crisis. Wolfgang Streeck thinks we’ve misidentified the cause and the solution alike. Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne, […]
Economics
Richard Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – The Long Goodbye to Empire
5 June 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, June 5, 2025, and our friends Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson are back with us. Welcome. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: Let’s […]
Economics
Mebratu Kelecha – Between Washington and Beijing, Africa is a country
Amid Trump’s tariffs, Africa faces trade disruptions, corporate power, and emerging partnerships in its quest to control its economic destiny. Mebratu Kelecha is an independent researcher Cross-posted from Other News Photo: NASA/Public Domain The global […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Bancor
The Keynesian idea of an international system to balance global trade surpluses and deficits between countries is a utopian fantasy. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Exports in April 2025: -2.1% year on year. Imports up 3.8%
Exports (calendar and seasonally adjusted exports of goods), April 2025 131.1 billion euros -1.7% on the previous month -2.1% on the same month a year earlier Imports (calendar and seasonally adjusted imports of goods), April […]
Economics
DeStatis – German Recession: Production in April 2025: -1.8% year on year
Production in industry April 2025 (in real terms, provisional): -1.4% on the previous month (seasonally and calendar adjusted) -1.8% on the same month a year earlier (calendar adjusted) Read Article HERE
Economics
Alastair Crooke – ‘One quiet early morning in Beijing, the dollar’s crown slipped’
Should China succeed, the U.S. would lose its ‘magic weapon’ of monetary dominance. Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal “I […]
Austerity
Chris Dillow – Systems, not individuals
Not seeing the political/economic forest for the trees Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, and is the author of New Labour and the End of Politics. […]