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Michael Roberts: Historical Materialism Conference – monopoly, imperialism, inflation and Ukraine

November 16, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Michael Roberts on a number of topics from November’s Historical Materialism Conference in London Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog As usual it won’t […]

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Robert Reich – It’s the Corporate Greed, Stupid

November 6, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Big corporations continuing to raise their prices above their rising costs (including their labor costs). Why? Because they can. Robert Reich, is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – Should electricity markets be reformed or disbanded?

November 5, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Why electricity  should once again be nationalised. Yanis Varoufakis is a former Finance Minister of Greece, Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, and author of several bestselling books including most recently “Another Now: […]

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David Boyle: The resistable rise of the Absent Corporation

October 24, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

I have tried to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of my Tickbox book – really just by writing about it a great deal, and by […]

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Lynn Parramore, Hal Singer – How Corporations “Get Away With Murder” to Inflate Prices on Rent, Food, and Electricity

October 23, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Antitrust expert Hal Singer shows how big businesses in certain industries are taking advantage of inflation worries to jack up prices far beyond their cost increases, all the while raking in robber-baron profits. Lynn Parramore […]

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Corporate Europe Observatory – How biotech giants use patents and new GMOs to control the future of food

October 23, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Big global biotech corporations like Bayer and Corteva, which together already control 40% of the global seed market, are dangerously trying to reinforce their monopoly and threatening food security. A group of seed saving, environmental […]

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We Have No Option But Hope: Noam Chomsky Talks With David Barsamian

October 4, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Good insights into the current state of politics and democracy in the United States Noam Chomsky is a linguist, philosopher, and political activist. He is the laureate professor of linguistics at the University of Arizona […]

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Yanis Varoufakis – Why energy markets should be dismantled, especially during and after the war in Ukraine

September 18, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

We look at how the Ukraine war is contributing to an energy crisis across Europe with Greek politician and economist Yanis Varoufakis. Last week Russia announced it would not resume sending natural gas to Europe […]

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Chris Dillow: Why do we want free markets?

September 14, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Where there is monopoly, or the opportunity for egregious exploitation, or agency failure, then the case for free markets diminishes. Chris Dillow is an economics writer at Investors Chronicle. He blogs at Stumbling and Mumbling, […]

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Michael Hudson – A short history of inflation in modern times

September 12, 2022 Mathew D. Rose 0

Economist Michael Hudson joins Multipolarista host Ben Norton to discuss partial student debt relief in the US, inflation and the Fed, disaster capitalism in Ukraine, and China’s challenge to the petrodollar. Michael Hudson is the author […]

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The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens Our Businesses, Infantilizes Our Governments, and Warps Our Economies by Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington

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Book Review by Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato and Rosie Collington are authors of The Big Con: How the Consulting Industry Weakens our Businesses, Infantilises our Governments and Warps our Economies.  They launched their book with […]

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When McKinsey comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm by Walt Bogdanovitch and Michael Forsythe

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