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Wealth inequality

Michael Roberts
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I have written before about the fact that, both in advanced and so-called ’emerging economies’, wealth is significantly more unequally distributed than income. Moreover, the pro-capitalist World Economic Forum has reported that: “This problem has improved little in recent years,...

Post-Keynesianism: the principles

Michael Roberts
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Like Marxist or mainstream economics, Keynesian economics has several strands. There is Keynesian economics seen within the parameters of general equilibrium economics, where changes in income and expenditure, consumption and investment, interest rates and employment will tend...

Why ‘pensée unique’ will be misleading

Dieter Plehwe
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It has been popular since the global financial crisis in 2008 again to think of neoliberalism as a terminally failed project ('zombie ideas'), and accordingly to present the current period as an interregnum to post-neoliberalism....

MOVE UP! No profit on People and Planet

International video conference 18 May 2012 from 4pm to 8pm Meeting with political and social personalities from Europe, North and South America, Asia and Africa, to present the Citizens' Memorandum FOR A GLOBAL PUBLIC HEALTH...

Warren Buffett’s class war

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
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In the year 2006, none other than Warren E. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway ̶ currently valued at $80bn ̶ said in a New York Times interview, There’s class warfare, all right, but...

Another heinous scandal has erupted in Bulgaria. Will anyone notice?

Nikolay Draganov
Anti-corruption
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It all started on May 5th this year, when Svetoslav Ilchovski, a wealthy Bulgarian farmer and landowner, was summoned to testify before the temporary parliamentary committee investigating the wrongdoings of the Borissov cabinet. Svetoslav Ilchovski...

Communicating Global Warming

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Ecology
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Given the success of the polluting industries in feeding the public with disinformation on global warming, we need to think about how to communicate global warming better than we have done so far. For that...

Even if Fox ever went down along with Murdoch, the law of media capitalism would ensure the right-..

Thomas Klikauer - Catherine Link
Journalism and Media
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A recent three-part BBC documentary explores Rupert Murdoch’s role in the rise of Donald Trump, Boris Johnson (BOJO) and others. It traces the life of Trump supporter Murdoch in answering the question: how could the...

We condemn the Israeli settler-colonial violence against Palestinians

We unequivocally condemn the recent escalation of the Israeli state’s persisting settler-colonial violence against Palestinians, which has most recently manifested itself in the forced expulsions of families from the occupied East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh...

The structure of wealth and the Global money-making apparatus

Thomas Klikauer - Norman Simms
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Some years ago the British Ministry of Defense asked its strategic military institute about conflicts that the world will face in thirty years. The rather surprising result was that the UK military was afraid of...