Mark Blyth’s Incisive Post-Crisis Takedown: “A Brief History of How We Got Here and Why”
Mark Blyth gives a pithy talk on the economic regimes of the modern period and what is likely to be in store.
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Nobel Economist Angus Deaton: Inequality is Destroying Democratic Capitalism
Angus Deaton argues that the present level of inequality is a threat to “democratic capitalism” but contends that historically, even more severe inequality has been reversed.
Read more...‘This Is the Beginning’: New Study Warns Climate Crisis May Have Been Pivotal in Rise of Drug-Resistant Superbug
How rising temperatures helped create superbug C. auris and may turn other fungi lethal.
Read more...China: The Covert Credit Superpower
An new working paper by Sebastian Horn, Carmen Reinhart and Christoph Trebesch on China’s foreign lending has some important findings, such as that China accounts for more than 40% of the external debt of 50 developing countries. We’ve embedded the document at the end of this post. The study is an ambitious undertaking, seeking to […]
Read more...How NGOs in Rich Countries Control their Counterparts in Poor Countries..and Why they Refuse to Resolve it
Many NGOs around the world are fighting inequality between the rich and the poor, but the bigger NGOs are unwilling to fight policies that keep rich NGOs richer.
Read more...Is There a Global Future for Unions?
A personal retrospective on the forces driving the rise and decline (and hopeful revival) of unions.
Read more...Michael Hudson: De-Dollarizing the American Financial Empire
Michael Hudson on how the US was able to turn its change from creditor to debtor to its advantage.
Read more...Brexit: Will Boris or Won’t He?
Does Johnson have any Brexit wriggle room?
Read more...Transfer (Mis)pricing, the Jewel in Every Multinational Enterprise’s Crown
Transfer pricing: How developing countries lose $3 billion every day through an accounting trick that allows corporations to avoid paying tax.
Read more...Recycling Woes: Indonesia Sends Waste Shipment Back to Australia
Developing countries are refusing to accept shipments of waste for recycling; China’s new rules on scrap metal may disrupt the worldwide market for such recycling.
Read more...Trump’s Version of the Iran Accord: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
A clinical look at the Administration’s disingenuous Iran spin.
Read more...Mining and Electric Vehicles: Lithium, Nickel, Cobalt
Electric vehicle production at scale requires materials we don’t have enough of.
Read more...Reforestation as a Solution for Carbon Capture: Hype and Reality
Advocates for reforestation must consider who owns the land to be reforested, and how the reforestation is to be done.
Read more...Farewell, Flat World
A new world is emerging, in which it will be much harder to separate economics from geopolitics
Read more...Ilargi: Memo to the US – The Winds Are Shifting
Why the US looks like it has a glass jaw.
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