We can call it strategic impotence – using a claim to be unable to do something as means of pursuing one’s advantage or cementing privilege.
Economics
Thomas Piketty: Trump, Macron: same fight
It is customary to contrast Trump and Macron: on one hand the vulgar American businessman with his xenophobic tweets and global warming scepticism; and on the other, the well-educated, enlightened European with his concern for […]
Climate Crisis
Bill Mitchell: Deep adaptation, degrowth and MMT – Part 2
Deep adaptation means creating a caring environment for people to live in balance with nature. It might also mean that we just seek to minimise the social calamities as the environments spins out of control […]
Austerity
David Harvey: What is Neoliberalism?
David Harvey on what neoliberalism is, where it came from – and why the concept is still relevant today. Read here
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