“In spite of the celebration of the success of our vaccines in controlling the spread of the virus among people who get them, we have done an abysmal job in vaccinating the world” Dean Baker […]
During the pandemic in Western nations the economy has had priority over lives, the same with vaccine monopoly profits Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted […]
This is why we have patents and monopolies, not to serve society which financed the research for these vaccinations Cross-posted from the OXFAM website At least nine people have become new billionaires since the beginning […]
How markets get corrupted, and nobody seems to want to clean them up Counterbalance is a newsletter from a new anti-monopoly organisation, the Balanced Economy Project Cross-posted from Counterbalance To subscribe to The Counterbalance click […]
The remarkable power that supermarkets exert over their suppliers. Mainstream thinking about monopolies and market power minimises such issues, reducing them to questions of “consumer welfare” and the economic efficiency of corporations. The harder supermarkets […]
Colonial-era policies and global health gatekeepers have made it nigh-on impossible for doctors and scientists on the continent to take their vaccines to clinical trials. Read here
Just as Angela Merkel’s reputation as the world leader of Liberal Democracy – not difficult while Donald Trump was in office – is fading following a series of fiascos, she has been outflanked by the […]
Who meets the European Commission to discuss the scarcity of COVID vaccines and medicines in Europe and globally? An investigation of recent meetings show a disconcerting pattern: only those not questioning big pharma’s monopoly on […]
When the Trump reactionary high tide is in everyone looks liberal. Now that that tide is out the “Great Leader” of European liberal democracy is discovered to be skinny dipping. Read here
Commodity traders wreak havoc on global markets and profit from ecological and social devastation. Can they be stopped? Joseph Baines is a lecturer in International Political Economy at King’s College London Sandy Brian Hager is […]
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