Austerity
Inequality
Austerity
Richard Murphy – Has capitalism failed, or has neoliberalism destroyed it?
Has capitalism failed? Or is the real problem with the particular form of capitalism that has dominated Britain and much of the Western world since the 1980s? Richard Murphy is an economic justice campaigner. Professor […]
Austerity
Michael Roberts – Is Keynesianism dead?
Since 2008, corporate bond issuance has grown significantly above trend, while corporate investment has not. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger. Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ blog “Is Keynesianism […]
Austerity
Reindustrialise Britain – A Strategy for Wealth Creation by Costas Lapavitsas, Larry Elliot, Doug Nicholls
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose With the exception of the Epstein Class and the Professional and Managerial Caste in Britain there is now a broad consensus that neo-liberalism has failed the nation. It has […]
Economics
Karishma Manzur, Chris Hedges – Fighting Big Money in Politics
Dr. Karishma Manzur challenges the Democratic establishment in New Hampshire with an insurgent progressive senatorial campaign. Manzur aims to restore the true meaning of ‘public service.’ Transcript Chris Hedges: Dr. Karishma Manzur is a medical […]
Climate Crisis
Miqdad Asaria – Heatwaves don’t affect us all equally
Heatwaves not only affect the poor much more than the rich, they also contribute to widening inequality between the classes. Miqdad Asaria is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Health Policy at LSE and […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – The strange case of China’s urban consumption
Why are the rich not consuming? Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His latest book, The Great Global Transformation: National Market Liberalism in a Multipolar World, was published November 2025. Cross-posed […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Sketching the new dysto-utopian world with massive presence of artificial intelligence
AI would produce socially extremely unequal and politically much more unstable societies than the current proponents of abundance created by the artificial intelligence want us to believe. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development […]
Economics
Marie Gottschalk, Chris Hedges – How America’s Corporate Class Became Legally Unaccountable
Marie Gottschalk situates Trump’s rise behind the backdrop of US Empire, militarized police and Capital’s stranglehold on politics — depicting a nation not plagued by one man, but sick to the core Compared to other […]
Inequality
Aleksandar Matković – The Same Enemy Is Driving Protests Across the Balkans
‘In Serbia, the connivance between politicians and multinational capital has fed a sustained protest movement. Current protests in Albania, resisting a luxury development project backed by Jared Kushner, target a similar cronyish capitalism.’ In Jacobin. […]