Economics
Danny Dorling – Inequality – the big picture
An easily understood, entertaining, and brilliant lecture.
Inequality
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
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 […]