Michael Hudson, Glenn Diesen – Economic Collapse in Europe

‘A Study of Economics as if People Mattered’ was the subtitle of E F Schumacher’s most famous work, ‘Small is Beautiful’. It might seem jarring to non-economists that people might not “matter” in economic theory […]

When economist Thomas Picketty released his book ‘Capital in the 21Century’ people clambered to get a copy. The filmmaker Justin Pemberton has since made the film – in it, he points hard to how rentier […]

Michael delves into the history of debt and its role in our ever-changing economic structure. He references classical economists like Smith, Mills, Ricardo, and Marx, with their concept of economic rent as unearned income. They […]