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Alex Park – Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

April 23, 2024 David Shirreff 0

From South Africa to Ukraine, five industrial chicken companies that supply KFC have benefited from financing from the World Bank Group and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Alex Park is a journalist and researcher based in California Cross-posted […]

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Mariana Mazzucato, Tim O’Reilly, Ilan Strauss, Rufus Rock – To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money

April 17, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The key to understanding technological development is to look at the economic incentives the technologists have. All fourth authors are researchers and professors at the University College of London. Cross-posted from The Conversation Time and […]

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Financial Institutions

Darren Bush, Mark Glick, Gabriel Lozada, Hal Singer: Overdraft Fees, Credit Card Late Fees, and the Lump of Profit Fallacy

April 16, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Predetermined profit margins and prices hidden in the back end of a transaction are really just market failures. Read HERE Photo: Scheinwerfermann/Public Domain

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Costas Lapavitsas – Drifting toward world war

April 1, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 0

“The emerging hegemonic contest has no ideological content but is driven entirely by capitalist economic interests.” Costas Lapavitsas is Professor of Economics at the School of Oriental and African Studies andconvenor at European Research Network […]

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Michael Roberts – The State of Capitalism

March 28, 2024 Mathew D. Rose 1

“The State of Capitalism is an exercise in hard analysis and there is much to learn and debate. In that sense, the book is a must read…” Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of […]

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Lobbying

Lynn Parramore – Experts: Negotiating Big Pharma’s Prices Won’t Stifle Innovation—They Don’t Use the Money to Innovate!

March 19, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Industry lobbyists vehemently oppose Medicare drug price negotiations. However, physician-scientist Fred Ledley and economist William Lazonick debunk their arguments. Lynne Parramore is Senior Research Analyst at the Institute for New Economic Thinking Cross-posted from the […]

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Economics

Stephen Maher, Scott Aquanno – The Problem With Finance Is the Problem of Capitalism

March 6, 2024 Ben Wray 0

The authors’ of new book The Fall and Rise of American Capitalism: From J. P. Morgan to BlackRock argue that finance capital and industrial capital are not in conflict, as many have argued. They are in fact […]

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Lobbying

Corporate Europe Observatory: A welcome decision on Amazon EU lobby ban

March 5, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Weeks after Amazon workers and civil society allies demanded an Amazon ban from European institutions, the European Parliament will be withdrawing Amazon’s lobbying badges.  Read HERE Corporate Europe Observatory

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EU politics

How to Take Back the Internet – Interview with Cory Doctorow

February 14, 2024 Ben Wray 0

Insightful interview with the author of ‘The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation’ about big tech, monopolies, EU regulation and alternatives.  Konrad Bleyer-Simon is a research associate at the Centre for Media Pluralism […]

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Media Concentration

David S. D’Amato – The Ambiguity of Competition, Reconsidered

January 30, 2024 David Shirreff 0

Concentration of competition in the hands of a few mighty companies is mistakenly seen as a healthy development. A new report paints a startling picture of runaway consolidation. David S. D’Amato is an attorney, businessman, […]

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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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