Economics
Universal Basic Income
Economics
GPEnewsdocs: Bill Mitchell – Seeking Full Employment Without Falling Prey to Neoliberal Traps
William Mitchell exposes the many ideological maneuvers progressives need to confront in disputing the supremacy of profits over employment and people’s dignity. That goes for disciplining the state to appease foreign exchange markets, the problems […]
Economics
Dean Baker – Imagine a World Where CEOs Get Paid $3 Million a Year
Being a well-paid CEO means something very different today than it did fifty years ago Dean Baker is a Senior Economist at the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) Cross-posted from the CEPR Blog […]
Economics
Guy Standing – An Era of Chronic Uncertainty: Time for Basic Income
Why Basic Income is more imprtant now than ever. Guy Standing is a Professorial Research Associate, SOAS University of London and a council member of the Progressive Economy Forum. His new book is The Blue […]
Monopolies
Norbert Häring – Social credit system, digital central bank money and humans reduced to parts of a social mega machine
A think-piece after a riotous Whitsun weekend. Social credit and the digital central bank money are tools of technocratic social engineers. They want to turn societies into social mega-machines. To prevent this, it is not […]
Economics
Michael Roberts – Korea: from Moon to Yoon
The result of the presidential election in South Korea and the future of the Korean economy Michael Roberts is an Economist in the City of London and a prolific blogger Cross-posted from Michael’s Blog Photos: […]
Climate Crisis
Democracy versus Sustainability by Boris Frankel
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose Currently the market is flooded with books about climate change. Many more are on their way. The message of most of these is “The situation has gone from grim […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – “Civilising a hugely irrational world”
On Brexit and the task of confronting technofeudalism Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor This interview was conducted by Daniel Powell and […]
Climate Crisis
The Great Debt Debate Q&A with Michael Hudson, Steve Keen, Pavlina Tcherneva and Astra Taylor
The First Fight between Michael Hudson and Thomas Piketty about the nature of Debt was held on the 10th anniversary of the edition of David Graeber’s 5000 Years of Debt. The fight had so many […]
Climate Crisis
BRAVE NEW EUROPE – Fundraiser 2021
Dear Reader (or Potential Reader), We’re all trying to make sense of the past two years and what that means for our future. More than ever before we’re learning to recognise that, rich or poor, […]