Economics
Corporate Europe Observatory – Off the hook?
How business lobbies against liability for human rights and environmental abuses Read here
Globalisation
Climate Crisis
Ian Goldin – How the pandemic could save us
Despite the tragic deaths, suffering and sadness that it has caused, the pandemic could go down in history as the event that rescued humanity. This column argues that the pandemic has created a hinge moment […]
Climate Crisis
Ian Goldin – COVID-19 has shown that following the same road will lead the world over a precipice
Shutterstock Ian Goldin, University of Oxford Despite the tragic deaths, suffering and sadness that it has caused, the pandemic could go down in history as the event that rescued humanity. It has created a once-in-a-generation […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – The productivity crisis
Labour productivity growth globally has been slowing for 50 years and looks like continuing to do so. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog It […]
Economics
The Despotism of Workplace Flexibility by Alex J. Wood
Book Review byThomas Klikauer, Nadine Campbell – The Despotism of Workplace Flexibility by Alex J. Wood Cross-posted from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Despotism on Demand comes with the well-deserved praise of two seminal […]
Climate Crisis
Branko Milanović – Capital gains: My reply to Alyssa Battistoni
Some additional thoughts concerning Branko’s book “Capitalism, Alone” 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” Cross-posted from […]
Economics
Steve Keen – Reducing Debt via a Modern Debt Jubilee
As global debt inexorably increases due to COVID and many people can no longer pay their debts or are being forced to take out new ones, is it time to wipe the slate clean? Steve […]
Corruption
Branko Milanović – Marx in Amerika
Much may have changed in the structures of capitalism since Marx, but the exploitation survives – more now than ever. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, […]
Economics
Joseph Baines, Sandy Brian Hager – Commodity trading: the shadowy industry destroying the planet
Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped? Joseph Baines is a lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London Sandy Brian Hager is […]
Finance
Gig Economy Project – Digital Platform Workers in the Pandemic Crisis: A Year of Struggle
Despite the global recession and pandemic, there are signs that a workers’ movement in the digital platform economy is developing. To mark International Workers’ Day, Ben Wray looks at key developments in platform worker struggles […]