Economics
Ben Tarnoff: How to think about the relationship between capitalism and the internet
Building a better story about the internet. Read here
Monopolies
Deregulation
Open Markets Institute: The Role of Monopoly in America’s Prescription Drug Crisis
This White Paper should act as a warning to anyone contemplating opening the UK’s National Health Service further to the US pharmaceuticals industry. Read here
Economics
Lynn Parramore – Evil is Baked into Big Tech’s Business Plan. Now What?
In her new book, Don’t Be Evil, Rana Foroohar explores how to confront companies like Google and their under-regulated stampede over all of us. Lynn Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Simple Economics that Most Economists Don’t Know
“For this holiday season, I will give three big items that are apparently too simple for economists to understand.” Especially interesting in point 3! Also an article for non-economists Dean Baker is a Senior Economist […]
Austerity
Grace Blakeley – Financialisation and the climate emergency
Grace’s talk in Berlin on November 12 in our series “Economics beyond the Swabian hausfrau”.
Deregulation
Guy Standing – Rentier Capitalism is Breeding Neo-Fascism
Faced with a crisis of awesome proportions, we must develop a strategy for re-embedding the economy in society. Guy Standing is Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London, Fellow of the UK Academy of Social […]
Finance
Nick Shaxson: If tax havens scare you, monopolies should too. And vice versa.
An excellent article, although rather long. So if you have an hour on the weekend to dedicate to erudition read HERE
Economics
Nick Shaxson – “The Finance Curse – 20 reasons to shrink your local financial centre”
Countries whose economies are dominated by large financial centres suffer a “Finance Curse” that is rather similar in cause and effect to a “Resource Curse” that afflicts many countries whose economies are dominated by large […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – A rent-seeking economy?
There is a fascinating discussion going on among economists concerning “renterisation”. Sounds complicated, but is simple to understand. In this article,which is perfect for beginners (non-economists), Michael Roberts takes a closer look at the topic […]
Economics
Jerome Roos: Rentier capitalism does not come with a reset button
Monopolisation, profit without purpose and social corrosion are not accidents – they are inherent, and ever more pronounced, factors of the system itself. Read here