This is a big deal, and a very good thing Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project. Cross-posted from The Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance click Here Frances […]
Yanis Varoufakis – whatever you may think of him – is one of those thinkers one should regularly check in on. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s […]
As inequality increases, the question is, when does it reach breaking point? Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in […]
Siva Thambisetty reflects on the ongoing failure to increase countries’ access to COVID-19 vaccines, especially through the TRIPS waiver proposal put forward in October 2020. She identifies emotion, dignity, and ideology as some of the key […]
Competition agency also orders Amazon to set ‘fair and non-discriminatory standards’ for third-party sellers. Read here
Capitalist accumulation has always depended on cheap labor and resources extracted from the Global South. To end this violence we need a post-capitalist transition—otherwise, as climate breakdown accelerates, the ceaseless search for profit will drive […]
We shall encounter the same problem with climate change. The rich countries will horde all the new technologies, leaving poor countries to continue their fossil fuel course. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development […]
Amazon’s dominance of online retail means that small businesses have little choice but to rely on its site to reach consumers. This report finds that Amazon is exploiting its position as a gatekeeper to impose […]
What irony: The WTO Ministerial meeting has been cancelled as a new, virulent strain of COVID, resulting from the lack of vaccines in underdeveloped nations – the handiwork of the WTO – starts to sweep […]
“The Federal Reserve has been single handedly financing the stock market and the bond market. The government has been giving away monopoly privileges to increase profits, to help support stock and bond prices, and that’s […]
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