Like Donald Trump, Bill Gates apparently has a hard time understanding some things. The NYT had a major article on Gate’s role in developing vaccines against the coronavirus. At one point, the piece notes critics […]
Some interesting ideas here – also for the EU. God knows why they put in the very last point. Robert Skidelsky is Crossbench peer and Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Warwick University Will Hutton […]
When the goal of public health is not the well-being of citizens, but the profits of corporations. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from Dean’s […]
Fascism is the absolute reign of neo-liberalism. Richard D. Wolff is professor of economics emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and a visiting professor in the Graduate Program in International Affairs of the New […]
We are living in unusual times where institutions seem intent upon destroying their credibility. Good so. Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts Blog […]
To find a solution to stop global warming, we shall have to find a solution to capitalism. David Whyte is Professor of Socio-legal Studies at the University of Liverpool. His book “Ecocide – Kill The […]
In a pandemic the pharmaceutical industry is hailed as a saviour; yet the industry is using the crisis to lock in its problematic, profit-maximising model. Pushing for public money with no-strings-attached, and stronger monopoly patent […]
When economist Thomas Picketty released his book ‘Capital in the 21Century’ people clambered to get a copy. The filmmaker Justin Pemberton has since made the film – in it, he points hard to how rentier […]
Last week, the European Commission announced, in response to a complaint filed by Spotify, that it would be opening an investigation into Apple’s App Store practices, which potentially constitutes an illegal breach of EU competition […]
The pandemic has accelerated the growth of the data economy and the digital giants who dominate it. It’s time to rethink how data is owned, governed and used. James Meadway is an economist and writer […]
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