Economics
Tribune: Adrienne Buller and Benjamin Braun – Asset Manager Capitalism
Where the power really lies in big corporations – and whether worker ownership can change the game Listen here
Inequality
Austerity
Alfredo Saad-Filho – From Pandemic with Neoliberal Characteristics to Social Conflict
There is no doubting that the pandemic has had a major impact on global capitalism. But what can we say about the new course of the system? Alfredo Saad-Filho argues that the shift away from […]
Climate Crisis
Branko Milanović – Is Norway the new East India Company?
A brilliant comparison, especially as Norway is held up as a paradigm of reducing CO2. It even has a $1.32 trillion wealth fund with which to build a carbon free economy. Branko Milanović is an […]
Climate Crisis
Age of Economics: Branko Milanović – Why does economics matter?
Branko Milanović addresses eight questions about economics today. Serbian-American. PhD in economics. Professor of economics at CUNY, LSE and IBEI (Barcelona) Cross-posted from Age of Economics 1. Why does economics matter? This is a huge […]
Climate Crisis
Kira Walker – As concerns over the UN Food Systems Summit mount, civil society’s hunger for change deepens
Neocolonialism is alive and well in the UN Kira Walker is an independent journalist and photographer covering the environment, conflict and their intersection in west Asia and north Africa. Cross-posted from Equal Times Creative Touch […]
Climate Crisis
Tim Jackson – Billionaire space race: the ultimate symbol of capitalism’s flawed obsession with growth
Tom Leishman/Pexels Tim Jackson, University of Surrey Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids, laments the Rocket Man in Elton John’s timeless classic. In fact, it’s cold as hell. But that doesn’t […]
Economics
Michael Kwet: Digital colonialism – The evolution of US empire
Over the past decades, transnational “Big Tech” corporations based in the United States have amassed trillions of dollars and gained excessive powers to control everything, from business and labour to social media and entertainment in […]
Economics
Danny Dorling – You may say “jam tomorrow”. But we say, “share today”
Rather than promising growth tomorrow, policy-makers should give more to younger generations today Danny Dorling is Halford Mackinder Professor of Geography, University of Oxford Cross-posted from Danny Dorling´s blog Slowing GDP growth We tend to […]
Economics
Thomas Klikauer, Meg Young – Corporate Capitalism Works … For Some!
Higher profits mean lower wages for workers. Thomas Klikauer teaches MBAs at the Sydney Graduate School of Management, Western Sydney University, Australia Meg Young is a Sydney Accountant Cross-posted from Counterpunch Photograph by Nathaniel St. […]
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – Techno-Feudalism is taking over
Capitalism is destroying the planet. This form even more. Yanis Varoufakis is a Greek economist, politician, leader of MeRA25 and DiEM25, former Greece’s Finance Minister, author and professor Cross-posted from the website of DiEM 25 […]