No Exit: Western Imperialism, Capitalism, and Industrialization
Is industrialization the original sin of both capitalist and Communist/socialist economic systems?
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Europe’s New Fiscal Rules Harm Working People and Women, Boost Right-Wing Radicals
New EU fiscal rules, touted as creating and economic growth, actually embody a dangerous agenda to shred social safety nets.
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis: Greece, EU Elections, Palestine & the International Order – JACOBIN Interview with David Broder
Varoufakis weighs in on topics of keen interest: the looting of Greece, then and now, the European left, and Palestine.
Read more...IMF, in a Quiet Slap to the US, Urges Non-Alignment in Second Cold War
When you’ve lost the IMF…..
Read more...Mapping the Economic Costs of War
Looking at the economic impact of war on neighboring countries, including ones not part of the theater of conflict.
Read more...“I Don’t Believe in Growth”
Why growth is no panacea.
Read more...Why Are Their Lordships So Frightened of Modern Monetary Theory?
Efforts are underway to discredit modern monetary theory in the UK.
Read more...The Intergenerational Health Effects of Forced Displacement: Japanese American incarceration During WWII
As confirmed by a study of Japanese interment in World War II, the health impact of displacement is long-lived.
Read more...Michael Hudson: Marxism, Economic Parasites, and Debt Cancellation
Michael Hudson in a bracing talk, including history of crises, the role of debt, and how ancient Greek and Roman law promoted inequality
Read more...Gendering the Predator State
Some new wrinkles on who wins and loses in James Galbraith’s Predator State.
Read more...Inflation and Power
Why the Fed’s approach to inflation has the main effect of reducing labor bargaining power, which is seldom the real problem.
Read more...Economic Solutions: How To Go from Financialized Neoliberalism to a Productive, Sustainable Economy
Some concrete proposals for how to slip the yoke of neoliberalism and start building a fairer and more functional economy.
Read more...Will We Follow China and Suffer Deflation – Which Is Very Much Worse Than Inflation?
Central bankers fret about inflation, but the far more destructive deflation may become a treat.
Read more...Rob Urie: Imperialism, Lenin, and US Wars Abroad
Why Lenin was right.
Read more...CBO and CMS Continue to Overestimate Health Care Cost Increases, Creating Unjustified Pressure to Cut Benefits
The CBO and CMS, keep overestimating health cost increase, and at least for the CBO, it’s due to neoliberal fealty.
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