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Economics
Michael Hudson – Today’s Civilisational Conflict
Abstract: United States’ evangelistic rhetoric describes the imminent political and economic fracture of the world economy as a “conflict of civilisation” between democracies (countries that support US policy) and autocracies (nations acting independently). It would […]
Economics
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Late-Stage Barbarism Meets a Mixed-Economy Bloc
11 September 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, September 11, 2025, and our friends Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: […]
Economics
Prem Sikka: How successive British governments have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. Read Article HERE Licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0
Economics
Michael Hudson, Ben Norton – America’s Free Lunch Economy
Economist Michael Hudson warns that the U.S. has morphed into a “free lunch economy,” where wealth flows not from production but from unearned rents and financial gains. Wall Street landlords like Blackstone buy up homes, […]
Economics
Aidan Regan – Winner Takes All: How the Top 1% of Firms Capture the Profits
Large corporations control much of the economy and politics in Western Europe, a power they abuse to increase their profits Aidan Regan is professor at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations Cross-posted […]
Economics
Alastair Crooke – Is the Trump Project unravelling?
Confidence is everything. And that ‘capital’ is being eroded rapidly Alastair Crooke is a former British diplomat, founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum Cross-posted from the Strategic Culture online journal The Musk versus […]
Economics
Abundance – How We Build a Better Future by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
Book Review by Michael Roberts Abundance is a new book that has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. It aims to explain to Democrat members in the US why their party […]
Economics
Michael Hudson – Trump’s Inverted View of America’s Tariff History
A completely different take on Trump’s tariffs Michael Hudson is an American economist, a professor of economics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, and a researcher at the Levy Economics Institute at Bard College. He […]