Climate Crisis
Thea Riofrancos – Plan, Mood, Battlefield – Reflections on the Green New Deal
Climate scientists are beginning to sound like radicals. Read here
Inequality
Economics
Lars P. Syll – We Need More Redistribution
Wealth and income distribution, both individual and functional, in a market society is to an overwhelmingly high degree influenced by institutionalized political and economic norms and power relations. Lars P. Syll is an economist at […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – How to Create an Ethical Country, If not the World: Part 2 Review of Paul Collier’s “The Future of Capitalism”
In this second part of his book review Branko Milanović encounters a book with some progressive elements, but equally conservative solutions for a reformed capitalism. Sounds like another Oxford University Keynesian patrician. Branko Milanović is […]
Economics
Branko Milanović – Nostalgia for a Past that Never Was; Part 1 Review of Paul Collier’s “The Future of Capitalism”
Branko Milanovic examines a world that never was, reflecting why we lack the tools to deal with the world that we have. Branko Milanović is an economist specialised in development and inequality. His new book […]
Economics
Jason Hickel: Progress and its discontents
The world has never been better. From global poverty to inequality between nations, all the indicators are showing progress. This is a comforting narrative – popularized by the likes of Bill Gates and Steven Pinker. […]
Economics
Bill Mitchell: The Green New Deal must wipe out precarious work and underemployment
The numbers Bill uses are for Australia, but the must be familiar in most any European nation. Read here
Finance
Jason Hickel – A Response to Noah Smith About Global Poverty
Like most articles in mainstream media there is no intention to analyse problems, but instead to distort and obfuscate serious discussion. Jason Hickel is an anthropologist who works on political economy and global justice. He […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Capitalism in Crisis
What comes next? Yanis Varoufakis has some good ideas By the way, this is followed by Yanis’s first speech in Greece since MeRA25’s entry into Greece’s Parliament. Also interesting.
Finance
Mike Brewer – Inequality in the OECD is at a Record High – and Society is Suffering as a Result
arindambanerjee / Shutterstock.com Mike Brewer, University of Essex When high levels of inequality are pointed out, a common response is that the “politics of envy” are being deployed. I heard the phrase myself when I […]
Inequality
Prem Sikka: How an ‘Inequality Tax’ could restore some fairness to Britain
Prem Sikka shows why it’s time for a new tax on high pay. Read here