Economics
The Upshot: Is Capital or Labor Winning at Your Favorite Company? Introducing the Marx Ratio
An interesting article, but there are a number of caveats, as the author himself points out. Read here
Inequality
Austerity
Paul Mason: Neoliberalism is a real economic model – here’s how the left can overturn it
The replacement of a hyper-financialised system will require a radical reshaping of the state, new national and global institutions, and new treaties. Read here
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Discussing Seattle’s Amazon Head Tax
Yanis Varoufakis’s take on why Amazon and other companies in Seattle are refusing to pay a “head tax” on their employees to finance housing for the poor and the consequences of such policies. Listen here
Economics
Branko Milanovic: Why were the Balkans underdeveloped? A geographical hypothesis
Interesting examination of the historical economic structure of the Balkans. Read here
Economics
Branko Milanović on Global Inequality: What Do We Do?
A short interview seeking solution to global inequality. Listen here
Economics
Bernie Sanders: “Open borders? That’s a Koch brothers proposal”
This is a similar to what Colin Hines has been saying (here and here) for which he has been viciously attacked in the UK. This is a couple of years old. For the rest of […]
Finance
Branko Milanovic: If you want to be rich, you’d better be born in, or emigrate to a rich country
Branko Milanovic explains the current state of global inequality Read here
Economics
John Weeks – Politics of Monetary Policy and Why Progressives Prefer to Tax & Spend
One of the most important victories of neo-liberalism was banning serious fiscal policy by democratically elected governments to deal with economic crises, relegating this power to monetary policy of purportedly independent, yet unelected, central banks. […]
Economics
Jacqueline Best – Why we need to stop letting economic crises go to waste
Economic crises present opportunities to build a more equitable, effective society, but too often these opportunities are lost. Jacqueline Best, SPERI Honorary Research Fellow & Professor of Political Studies, University of Ottawa Cross-posted from Sheffield […]
Economics
Matt Stoller: Bigger Corporations Are Making You Poorer
Profits of large corporations, many of them monopolies, are not going to the workers and not being reinvested. So where is it going? Read here