Finance
Chris Dillow: Anti-communism as bad faith
Anti-communism was and still is a very comfortable part of a defence of inequality in the west. Read here
Inequality
Economics
Carys Roberts – Jeff Bezos’s fortune has come at the expense of workers and society not receiving their fair share
The richest man in the world did not get there alone; his wealth is created by the exploitation of Amazon’s millions of workers, suppliers and consumers. By Carys Roberts, Senior Economist at IPPR and an […]
Gig Economy
cnet: Amazon workers in Europe go on strike during Prime Day
It is encouraging to see workers in three EU nations (Poland, Spain, and Germany) going on strike simultaneously against the monopolist Amazon. Let us hope that workers from other countries will join in in the […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – Dambisa Moyo is wrong about the global economy – here’s why
Western media can’t seem to get enough of Moyo: her ideas stray little from old neoliberal mantras so endlessly recycled by establishment elites in the US and Europe. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works […]
Economics
Steve Parfitt – Two tiny but mighty new trade unions offer UK a better way to ‘take back control’
Eyes On Rights / flickr, CC BY-NC-SA Steven Parfitt, Loughborough University Many people in the UK interpret “take back control” as “close the borders”. But there are other ways for people to restore their communities […]
Austerity
Kate Pickett – Mental health effects of inequality
Kate Pickett joins Politics Theory Other to discuss her new book – co-authored with Richard Wilkinson – The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone’s Well-being, the follow up […]
Austerity
John Weeks – Free Markets & the Decline of Democracy
John weeks explains how neo-liberalsim causes the rise of fascism. You can read this lecture here
EU politics
Danny Dorling: Peak inequality
The gap between the very rich and the rest is wider in Britain than in any other large country in Europe, and society is the most unequal it has been since shortly after the First […]
Austerity
John Weeks – EU degenerates: Immiserizing Growth
This article is the second by John Weeks in his series “EU degenerates”. It assesses whether the European Union has achieved its founders’ stated goals of national and regional prosperity, convergence of development level across […]
Economics
Jason Hickel – “To eradicate poverty we have to radically reorganise the global economy”
Jason Hickel explains why the numbers being used to measure world poverty are not accurate and give the impression of improvement, where the situation is in reality getting worse.