Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor – Nordhaus, “Refuseniks” “Frontierniks” and “Limitniks”
The ‘single number’ theory that helped nix climate change Read HERE
Ann Pettifor
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor: Blame economists for decades of false security
And the cataclysmic gap between theory, policy and ecosystem collapse Read HERE
Climate Crisis
Ann Pettifor: It’s the Climate System, not the Weather
The race is on to transform the fossil-fuelled climate system. To do that, society must restrain the debt-fueled Money System. Both envelop, and threaten to overwhelm the planet. But to transform, we must first understand […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor – Financial Colonialism or National Sovereignty
Economic Interference in the Global South Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of […]
Economics
Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, Ann Pettifor – A new Third World debt crisis? The need for system change
The growing debt crisis in the Global South and the need for forgiveness and system change. Michael Hudson is President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial […]
Economics
Ann Pettifor: On facing The Big Stick
South Africa as geopolitical victim of the US hegemon Read HERE
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Celebrating the great Life of a woman economist – Professor Victoria Chick
There was a lively gathering of young and old economic dissenters at London’s UCL this week. We were there to celebrate the life of a leading dissenter, the distinguished economist, Professor Victoria Chick who died […]
Finance
Ann Pettifor: Central Bankers – Engineering a Worldwide Slump and Declaring Class War
Technocrats have used QE to deliberately inflate asset bubbles. They have never publicly condemned or constrained asset price inflation. Read Here
Deregulation
Ann Pettifor: The Sudden Paralysis of the System
Messing with a Marvellously Intricate and Fragile Global Financial System Read Here With acknowledgement to the artist, Daniel Agdag
Economics
Ann Pettifor: Grain Inflation – Starve the Poor, Feed the Rich
In a world of financialised globalisation, prices of food are not determined by the simplistic laws of supply and demand. Prices are determined by a wall of money wielded by relatively few, invisible speculators and […]