Economics
Monopolies
Corruption
Robin McAlpine – The failure of politics? You can’t fix what you can’t see
Policymakers are far too stuck in their own bubble to properly understand how their policies impact on people. Unless they learn to count what matters to real people rather than corporations, the fraying of democracy […]
Economics
Wang Wen, Glenn Diesen: China’s De-Americanization Strategy
23 December 2025
Economics
Economics
Michael Hudson – Today’s Civilisational Conflict
Abstract: United States’ evangelistic rhetoric describes the imminent political and economic fracture of the world economy as a “conflict of civilisation” between democracies (countries that support US policy) and autocracies (nations acting independently). It would […]
Economics
Economics
Richard D. Wolff, Michael Hudson, Nima Alkhorshid – Late-Stage Barbarism Meets a Mixed-Economy Bloc
11 September 2025 NIMA ALKHORSHID: Hi everybody, today is Thursday, September 11, 2025, and our friends Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff are back with us. Welcome back. RICHARD WOLFF: Glad to be here. NIMA ALKHORSHID: […]
Economics
Prem Sikka: How successive British governments have created a new rentier economy
Governments appease corporations and the super-rich by following the old policies which benefit a few. Read Article HERE Licensed under the Open Government Licence version 1.0
Economics
Michael Hudson, Ben Norton – America’s Free Lunch Economy
Economist Michael Hudson warns that the U.S. has morphed into a “free lunch economy,” where wealth flows not from production but from unearned rents and financial gains. Wall Street landlords like Blackstone buy up homes, […]
Economics
Aidan Regan – Winner Takes All: How the Top 1% of Firms Capture the Profits
Large corporations control much of the economy and politics in Western Europe, a power they abuse to increase their profits Aidan Regan is professor at University College Dublin, School of Politics and International Relations Cross-posted […]