Young Activists Working for Change
Young activists are more prevalent and effective than our orthodoxy-enforcing media and pols would have you believe.
Read more...Category Archives: Income disparity
World Bank Enables Foreign Aid Theft
The World Bank encourages governments to reduce capital controls, draining precious foreign exchange and government resources.
Read more...You Could Have a Wealth Tax Raising a Few Billion or Major Reforms to Existing Taxes That Could Raise £100 Billion or More? Which Would You Prefer if You Wanted To Tackle Inequality?
Watching Davos is enough to make many buy pitchfork futures or push for a wealth tax. But there are better ways to skin fat cats.
Read more...Predators and Prey: Subverting Liberal and Populist Institutions
An anatomy of how one-time key progressive institutions like NPR were converted to the neoliberal cause.
Read more...The Brave New World of Employment Under AI……What About Countervailing Forces?
Why AI still has some growth pains coming.
Read more...Global Economy’s Momentous Shift and Monumental Inequality
An in-depth yet lively debunking by Richard Wolff and Michael Hudson of Panglossian depictions of the state of the US economy and society.
Read more...How Workers and Firms Meet in the Labour Market and Why It Matters
Because search channels connect workers and firms at different rungs of the wage distribution, matching technologies matter not only for individual job search outcomes, but also for aggregate employment, productivity, and wage inequality.
Read more...The Debt Explosion: How Neoliberalism Fuels Debt Crises
Radhika Desai and Michael Husdon provide a data-driven discussion of the inflating and detonation of debt bombs during the neoliberal era.
Read more...Why the Middle Class Benefits from Inflation
Why you should be glad and learn to love inflation.
Read more...“The Right to Housing, Not Vacation Homes”
Efforts to curb AirBnB running unlicensed hotels, which cannibalizes residential housing, have not gone far enough.
Read more...Unhappy New Year: How Austerity is Making a Comeback in Berlin and Brussels
How EU states are still trapped in their self-devised austerity hairshirt.
Read more...We Deserve Medicare for All, But What We Get Is Medicare for Wall Street
An overview of health care, particularly Medicare, rentierism, with private equity playing a starring role.
Read more...American Household Debt: A Reappraisal
An attempt to correct the “blame the poors” approach to the reality and systemic risk posed by debt among lower-income borrowers.
Read more...Rarely in the Field of Human Endeavour Has One Rather Small Profession Caused So Much Harm to Humankind as Neoclassical Economists Do Now
Not enough bad can be said about neoclassical economics. The focus today is inflation policy.
Read more...From the Great Divergence to South-South Divergence
A discussion of the need to replace the Great Divergence framework illustrates how economists often cling to outdated ideas.
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