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Michael Roberts – Books of the year 2024
Every year at this time, I look back at the books that I have reviewed during the year on this blog. I’ll take them in chronological order. José Tapia had a new book on the […]
Economics
Politico – Back off, Mario! Capitals do not like the taste of Draghi’s telecom medicine.
There was always going to be tension between Draghi’s strategy for the concentration of European capital and member-states seeking to protect their national capitalists. Read the article HERE.
Economics
Michael Hudson, Richard D. Wolff, Nima Alkhorshid – A Concept of a Plan … for the National Interest
NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi, everybody. Today is Thursday, November 14th, and Michael and Richard are here with us to talk about what’s going on in the United States. Let’s start with Richard. Here is a video […]
Austerity
Wolfgang Streeck – Capitalism: Home Alone
Excerpt from Wolfgang Streeck’s book that appears this week, “Taking back Control? States and State Systems after Globalism”, London and New York: Verso, 2024, pp. 108-21 ISBN-13: 978-18397767296 Wolfgang Streeck is Emeritus Director and Senior […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Private equity: vampire capital
Private equity, the modern form of financial investment into and the management of companies and their workforces, is the epitome of the vampire motif Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Would Lenin have approved of the IMF?
An indispensable organization 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”. His new book, The Visions of inequality, was published […]
Finance
Glenn Diesen – BRICS Stockpiling Gold as the G7 Weaponised Finance
Gold is making a comeback because the G7 can’t be trusted with the sovereign funds of other countries. Glenn Diesen is a professor of political science at the University of South-Eastern Norway (USN), with a research focus […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The US presidential election: the economy
An analysis of the current state of the US economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The US stock market is booming, the dollar […]
Finance
VoxEU: Currency denomination of foreign exchange reserves – from taboo in the past towards disclosure and exciting research nowadays
There has been a growing trend towards more disclosure by central banks on the currency denomination of their foreign exchange reserves. Read HERE