Austerity
Thomas Fazi: Could Covid-19 vanquish neoliberalism?
This crisis is exposing the folly of applying market-based logic to every domain of human life Read here
Globalisation
Economics
Heiner Flassbeck – The Coronavirus and Developing Countries
Developing countries face a double whammy, the health impact of the virus and their inability to pump out central bank money. Industrialised countries must come to the rescue, for the benefit of all Heiner Flassbeck […]
Austerity
Michael Roberts – Lives or Livelihoods?
An analysis of the risks involved in the response to the coronavirus. before, during, and after. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog There […]
Climate Crisis
Steve Keen – Coronavirus Brutally Exposes the Fallacies Underlying Neoclassical Economics and Globalisation
The coronavirus has been the result of excessive human pressure on the biosphere. But its severity is the result of human greed and ignorance. Steve Keen is Distinguished Research Fellow, Institute for Strategy, Resilience & […]
Economics
John Smith – Why Coronavirus could Spark a Capitalist Supernova
There is no magic money tree – the ‘rescue packages’ aim to rescue a rotten system, and won’t work. John Smith is author of the prize-winning 2016 book Imperialism in the Twenty-First Century: Globalization, Super-Exploitation, […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – The World after Corona
What are the possibilities facing us in the future? Branko Milanović looks at various scenarios. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the […]
Economics
Costas Lapavitsas: This Crisis Has Exposed the Absurdities of Neoliberalism. That Doesn’t Mean It’ll Destroy It
The coronavirus shock has shaken the world’s stock markets, imposing the need for massive state bailouts. But the measures to deal with the crisis risk spurring an authoritarian controlled capitalism — one that protects corporate […]
Economics
Reuters: China’s factories reopen, only to fire workers as virus shreds global trade
A brilliant example of the spiral we are facing. Short and succinct. Everyone was praising globalisation, but apparently they do no understand it. Read here
Climate Crisis
Hendrik Theine: People before Profits – Some (preliminary) Thoughts on Reconciling the COVID-19 and the Climate Crisis
We are not only dealing with an economic crisis, but also with a climate crisis. The two are inseparable. Hendrik Theine (@tricksy) is a post-doc researcher at the Institute for Heterodox Economics at the Vienna […]
Climate Crisis
Tax Justice Network – Taxcast with Gail Bradbrook
In our monthly podcast, the Taxcast: How many more signs do we need to tell us we must urgently reform our economies, keep essential services out of private hands and transition away from fossil fuels? […]