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Hubert Horan – The Uber Bubble: Why Is a Company That Lost $20 Billion Claimed to Be Successful?

February 11, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

This is the first in a series of three articles from the end of 2019 that we have dug out of the archives in support of the Barcelona taxi drivers’ current conflict with Uber (see […]

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Thomas Klikauer, Meg Young – Exploitation and Platform Capitalism

February 4, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

The platform economy has enhanced capitalist exploitation Thomas Klikauer teaches at the Sydney Graduate School of Management at Western Sydney University, Australia. He has over 600 publications including a book on the AfD. Meg Young is a […]

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Dean Baker – Why Pay Less? The US Strategy for Vaccinating the World

January 17, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why open source medicines offer so much to society – but less to pharmaceutical corporations. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the CEPR Blog […]

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The Counterbalance – The UK is breaking up Facebook / Meta and (almost) nobody noticed

January 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – On why Croatia shouldn’t adopt the Euro, German politics and much more

December 23, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Richard D. Wolff – A Critique of Obscene Wealth

December 21, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Siva Thambisetty – Opposition to the TRIPS waiver: dispatches from the frontline

December 20, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Politico: Italy fines Amazon €1.13 billion for abusing market dominance

December 14, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

Competition agency also orders Amazon to set ‘fair and non-discriminatory standards’ for third-party sellers. Read here  

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Jason Hickel – The Age of Imperialism is Not Over—But We Can End It

December 7, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Branko Milanović – How to share vaccines between the poor and the rich

December 5, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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After Nations – The Making and Unmaking of a World Order by Rana Dasgupta

December 28, 2025 0

Reviewed by Branko Milanovic´ This new splendid and beautifully-written book by Rana Dasgupta has as its title After Nations: The Making and Unmaking of a World Order. The idea, briefly sketched in the introduction and […]

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Socialist Economics in Yugoslavia – A Critical History by Marko Grdešić and Mislav Žitko

December 3, 2025 0

Book Review by Branko Milanovic´ When on 28 June of 1948 Joseph Stalin wrote a latter on behalf of the Cominform to ask Yugoslavia’s communists to get rid of the “Titoist clique” and to return […]

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