Economics
Bill Black: MMT Takes Center Stage And Orthodox Economists Freak
Bill Black is always a voice worth listening to. He is Associate Profess of Law and Economics at the legendary Department of Economics at the University of Misssori-Kansas City. Read here
Martin Wolf – Why Economists Failed as “Experts”—and How to Make Them Matter Again
Economists should stop pretending to be scientists and go back to the core of the discipline—as a field of inquiry and way of thinking Martin Wolf is Associate Editor and Chief Economics Commentator, Financial Times […]
Michael Roberts – Neoliberalism: not so bad?
There seems to be a revisionist tendency to portray the “good side” of neo-liberalism. Not only this example, but also by Matt Bishop and Tony Payne of the University of Sheffield in a paper for […]
Laurie Macfarlane – We already live in a planned economy – we just need to take the steering wheel
Market arrangements always favour certain outcomes over others, and ensure that social arrangements stay within set parameters. Laurie Macfarlane is economics editor at openDemocracy, and a research associate at the UCL Institute for Innovation and […]
Bloomberg: MMT Has Been Around for Decades. Here’s Why It Just Caught Fire
U.S. budget already deep in the red, and markets have shrugged Trump, Ocasio-Cortez and Japan also offer support for MMT case Read here
Jason Hickel: Corporate Media Attacks on Corbyn & AOC Resemble State of Permanent Coup!
Russia Today speaks to Dr Jason Hickel, who serves on the Labour Party task force on international development, on inequality, a Green New Deal, his new book ‘The Divide’, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Jeremy Corbyn and […]
Cahal Moran – Top Marx for Pluralism
According to Marxist theory, the Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall (TRPF) leads to recurrent crises under capitalism. It’s a helpful device for framing the history of modern capitalism, from the profitability crisis of the 1970s […]
Lars Syll – MMT and the need for taxing the rich
Lars Syll on taxing the rich as a political tool to reduce inequality, not simply as an economic instrument as seen by Modern Monetary Theory. Lars P. Syll is an economist at the Faculty of […]
Michael Roberts – Demographic Demise
An interesting weekend read by Michael Roberts concerning economic decline due to demographics and a slowdown in productivity. Michael Roberts – Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog […]