Geopolitics
Ben Wray – It’s Time to Dismantle the US Sanctions-Industrial Complex
Review of Underground Empire: How America Weaponized the World Economy by Henry Farrell and Abraham Newman. In Jacobin. Read the article HERE.
Globalisation
Finance
Thang Nguyen Quoc – The Deglobalisation Myth
New supply chains study finds China-US and China-Japan decoupling, but global supply chains as a whole are continuing to expand. Thang Nguyen-Quoc, Ph.D. leads Oxford Economics Asia’s Macro consulting team in Singapore. Cross-posted from Pearls […]
Climate Crisis
Joe Guinan – Port Talbot’s Betrayal Shows Britain’s Lack of Direction
‘There is no future for a country with no real approach to developing a green steel industry — Port Talbot’s treatment demonstrates the Tories’ lack of seriousness to this reality.’ In Tribune. Read the article […]
Globalisation
Alessandra Mezzadri: Debt, wage theft and coercion drive the global garment industry – the only answer is collective action
The use of forced labour within garment supply chains is quite common. The good news is some workers are fighting back effectively. Alessandra Mezzadri is a Reader in Global Development and Political Economy, SOAS, University […]
Austerity
John Feffer – How Can Workers Ensure the ‘Just Transition’ Is Truly Just?
The global economy is already undergoing its most fundamental transformation since the Industrial Revolution; if workers and trade unions are at the table negotiating the transition, the process has a greater chance of being equitable […]
Economics
Ndongo Samba Sylla – The conceptual roots of the Global South’s debt crisis
The widening debt crisis largely stems from a flawed multilateral system. But it also reflects the limitations of mainstream economic thinking Ndongo Samba Sylla, Head of Research and Policy for the Africa Region at International […]
Climate Crisis
Michael Roberts – Davos and the melting world economy
Capitalism is becoming a parody of itself. Unfortunately it determines our fate – at the moment. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog The annual […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Neo-Liberalism Is Not Dead, It Never Lived
The Death of Neo-Liberalism: Victory Over a Non-Existent Enemy Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the CEPR Blog A friend called my attention to […]
Economics
Richard D. Wolff – What Is to Be Done?
“Now is the time to expose and attack capitalism’s deprivation of democracy in the workplace and the resulting social ills” Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor – What’s Art got to do with it?
The value of art, like other assets, is falling as inflation and interest rates rise. China in particular is in a debt-deflationary trap. In Ann Pettifor’s substack. Read the article HERE.