Every US president since Ronald Reagan has been telling the same myth: Tax gifts for the rich will trickle down to the rest of society. And society has has believed them. But trickle down has not worked and will never work. Robert Reich explains why in three minutes.
Economics
Yanis Varoufakis – On the Deep State – an audio essay in seven parts
Is there a Deep State in our western liberal democracies? If so, is it a conspiracy or something more ‘interesting’ than that? These are questions that the Left has been traditionally engaged with, especially when facing […]
Austerity
Quinn Slobodian – Neo-liberalism
Quinn Slobodian, author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism, on the history, theory, and practice of the doctrine Listen here
Economics
Steve Keen – Post Keynesianism
As someone who identifies as a Post Keynesian, and criticises mainstream economists for caricaturing rather than understanding Keynes’s novel contributions to economics, it was a great pleasure to be invited to address the Keynes Society […]
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