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Dean Baker – Debt and Deficits, Yet Again

January 14, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

With a Democrat in the White House, the season of the deficit hawk has returned. So, it’s worth going through the old arguments just to remind everyone that the best response to these people is […]

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Climate Crisis

Michael Roberts – Economics: The Radical Answers

January 8, 2021 Mathew D. Rose 0

And what the progressive economists at the American Economics Association (ASSA) are thinking Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael Roberts’ Blog To read the first part […]

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Dean Baker – End of the Year Thoughts on Inequality and Its Remedies

December 28, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

Although most have not grasped it yet, inequality is probably the greatest threat to our society and via climate change to our world. Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory: Big Tech brings out the big guns in fight for future of EU tech regulation

December 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

The next big EU lobby battle is already underway: Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are among the companies making huge efforts to shape the upcoming Commission proposals to regulate the digital market. Read here

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Michael Roberts – The Friedman doctrine in the 21st century

December 13, 2020 David Shirreff 0

Milton Friedman’s doctrine, the favouring of free markets and small government, prevails today, and the resulting tendency towards corporate monopolies, despite well-meaning proposals for better “rules of the game”. Michael Roberts is an Economist in […]

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Dean Baker – News for Bill Gates: Capitalism Is Still Capitalism Without Patent Monopolies

November 24, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Robert Skidelsky, Will Hutton – Sustaining and Creating Employment now and Post Covid

November 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Dean Baker – Lowering the Bar on Success: COVID Drug Development

November 12, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Richard D. Wolff – How Fascism Has Converged With Capitalism to Redefine Government

October 16, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Economics

Michael Roberts – Nobel Prize for Economics: A Prize Auction

October 13, 2020 Mathew D. Rose 0

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 […]

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Blitzed: Drugs in Nazi Germany by Norman Ohler

August 10, 2025 0

Book review by  Branko Milanović As I walked yesterday past the Metropolitan Museum in New York, I saw, among many stands that sell all kinds of trinkets, a table filled with books. One attracted my […]

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The Spectre of State Capitalism by Ilias Alami and Adam D Dixon

July 2, 2025 0

Reviewed by J. D. Evans Alami and Dixon’s The Spectre of State Capitalism is a careful discussion of a topic often dealt with in platitudes and sound-bites. The authors cover uses of ‘state capitalism’ as […]

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