For those of you trying to understand economics and what capitalism is about, here is an excellent introduction. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting […]
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The history of money has been the history of the struggles to control the payment system and the money tree. Today, with control over both resting in the hands of bankers, central banks’ efforts to […]
What do we want? Ramona Diaconescu/Shutterstock Nick Bernards, University of Warwick The recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report underscored the dire state of the climate crisis, concluding that “immediate, rapid and large-scale reductions […]
The super rich, pondering where to build their bunkers to escape climate collapse, are spreading their derangement to the rest of us, with new studies assessing which countries will best ride out a disaster the […]
The Chinese government has made an existential choice: rather than surviving by betting on the financial markets, it is going to produce stuff instead Marshall Auerback is a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute of […]
“Can climate change be laid at the door of the whole of humanity or instead on that part of humanity that owns, controls and decides what happens to our future?” Michael Roberts is an Economist […]
Established climate mitigation scenarios assume continued economic growth in all countries, and reconcile this with the Paris targets by betting on speculative technological change. Post-growth approaches may make it easier to achieve rapid mitigation while […]
. . . and why national competitiveness reduces competition Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. This interview was conducted by Nick Shaxson. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe […]
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