Austerity
Clara Mattei – The Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity & Paved the Way to Fascism
A talk based on Mattei’s recent book with the same title
Inequality
Economics
Sam Pizzigati: America’s Rich Dominate the Ranks of Our World’s Wealthiest. Why?
Average Danes, Canadians, and Dutch adults last year held less wealth than average Americans. But the median wealth of the most typical Danes, Canadians and Dutch dwarfed that of the most typical U.S. adults. Read Here Photo by BP Miller
Austerity
Chris Dillow: Origins of the Tory implosion
The implosion of the Tory party suggests I was wrong. Read Here
Climate Crisis
Max Lawson: Planet Earth can’t afford the rich
Research shows a drastic reduction in inequality is necessary to ensure a decent live for all and save the planet Read the article HERE
Economics
rfi: Refineries strike and rebate lead to fuel shortages in French stations
More than one petrol station in ten was out of all or part of its fuel in France on Thursday, as workers at TotalEnergies continued their strike at the oil giant’s refineries. Read Here
Corruption
We Have No Option But Hope: Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian
Good insights into the current state of politics and democracy in the United States Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona […]
Economics
Wolfgang Streeck: Not Quite Enough: How the Pandemic Failed to Save Europe
“What we need instead is a sober analysis of the structural conditions, restrictive as wellas conducive, and of the realistically possible organizationalforms for a Europe capable of keeping its distance from bothChina and the USA, […]
Finance
Jonathan Cook – Labour party: Starmer isn’t cowed by voters. He’s afraid of the establishment
A good analysis of why social-democratic parties in Europe are failing Jonathan Cook is the the author of three books on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and a winner of the Martha Gellhorn Special Prize for Journalism. […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Reading David Ricardo’s letters
Insights into the thinking of the 18th/19th century political economist David Ricardo Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His newest book is “Capitalism, Alone: The Future of the System That Rules […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Degrowth, Deep adaptation and MMT – Part 3
This is an outstanding series well worth following Part 3: Provide pathways for people into jobs that offer less hours, creative opportunities, social status, individual advancement, and material security in a low energy world – […]