Why should capitalism be “Saved from itself”? Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog Joseph Stiglitz is a Nobel (Riksbank) prize winner in economics […]
“Global poverty today isn’t natural or inevitable, it is an artifact of the very same policies that have been designed to siphon the lion’s share of global income into the pockets of the rich. “ […]
The richest nations got richer through rising investment in fossil fuels – and the global warming they caused has made the poorest nations measurably poorer. Read here
The problem with understanding the effects of globalisation on inequality is the information being used and how it is interperted. Branko Milanović gives some insight into trends and how they are and can be explained. […]
Taxation revenues are the basis of the modern state. Without them, it cannot perform its administrative and redistributive functions. Read here
In this episode in our Green New Deal series, GISP Research Director Mathew Forstater discuses a proposal to combine ecological tax reform with Functional Finance. Ecological tax reform would use taxes, fines, subsidies, regulations, and […]
The Royal Society of Arts has put its finger on a misery too seldom recognised – the loneliness of the low-income farmer: farmers who can’t afford to eat the food they produce; families too poor […]
What do you think the UK government should be spending its international aid budget on? Vaccines? Dealing with climate change? Helping countries close tax loopholes? I’m guessing you didn’t say profit-making private schools. But unfortunately, […]
A cruel irony of modern capitalism is that people in poverty are forced to pay more for many essential products and services. This is what is known as the ‘poverty premium’ – the extra cost […]
So we have it again. The commodification of human beings. It used to be known as slavery, now it is called “income sharing”. Isn´t the Sharing Economy so wonderful! Read here
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