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Rutger Bregman: Society’s biggest freeloaders are at the top

December 20, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This piece is about one of the biggest taboos of our times: We are living in an inverse welfare state. The people getting the biggest handouts are not down around the bottom, but at the […]

Finance

Richard Murphy – Why we need action to tackle wealth inequality

December 15, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Richard Murphy explains why inequality is detrimental to society, its quantitative and qualitative elements, and which are not acceptable to most of society. At the conclusion he offers some practical – some might say radical […]

Finance

Michael Roberts: Capitalism without capital – or capital without capitalism?

December 11, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The control of intangibles by a small number of mega companies could well be weakening the ability to find new ideas and develop them. Monopolies on intellectual property is not only damaging for the economy, […]

Finance

Mitch Feierstein: Google, Amazon, Facebook & Twitter are evil

November 28, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The Big Four tech giants control most of the world’s information flow, drug and food supply. Google and Facebook tried to manipulate the recent presidential election by prioritising, and sometimes burying content altogether. Throughout the […]

Finance

BBC: NHS overcharged by millions for key drug, says watchdog

November 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The British authroities said that last year the NHS spent £34m on its drug, liothyronine made by the drug company Concordia, up from about £600,000 in 2006.The amount the NHS paid per pack rose from […]

Finance

Norbert Häring – How does Germany’s Monopolies Commission combat market concentration? By making sure that no good data is available

November 19, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Norbert Häring has wirtten an excellent piece of how Germany avoids regulating monopolies. Although in other areas the German government is staunchly ordo-liberal, with regards to monopolies it has abaondoned these principles. Norbert Häring is […]

Finance

Open Markets Institute Calls on the Federal Trade Commission to Block All Facebook Acquisitions

November 8, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

This article deals with the situation in the USA, but Facebook’s is just as ubiquitous and dominant in Europe. The newly formed Open Markets Institute is one of the most important organisations challenging monopolies and […]

Finance

Barry Lynn and Matt Stoller: How to stop Google and Facebook from becoming even more powerful

November 3, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

“We at the Open Markets Institute recently called on the FTC to put a hold on all future mergers and acquisitions by Facebook – and potentially Google and Amazon…such a ban would help provide the […]

Finance

Nick Dearden: If Labour wants to save the NHS, it needs to cut out Big Pharma

October 31, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

Giant drug companies – ‘Big Pharma’ – have become the ultimate symbol of  a broken corporate model. They live off monopolies on medicines discovered many years ago, extending those monopolies by making tiny changes to […]

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Politico: Inside the new battle against Google

September 21, 2017 Mathew D. Rose 0

The firing of the anti-monopolist Barry Lynn at the behest of Google has brought the topic of tech monopolies into  the political limelight in the US. This is a long read, but provides an insight […]

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Ricardo’s Dream: How Economists Forgot the Real World and Led Us Astray by Nat Dyer

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Book Review by Branko Milanović This is an extraordinarily difficult book to review. Not because the main thesis is unclear or because it is written in a too complex way but because it combines, in […]

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A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine by Chris Hedges

May 5, 2025 0

Book Review by Chris Green It provides a modicum of relief to one’s mental health to turn from Nicholas Kristof’s lame bothsidesism and Bernie Sanders’s blather about Israel’s “right to defend itself” to reading Chris […]

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