Lynn Fries speaks to Harris Gleckman about the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it.
Read more...A short-form debunking of a popular but unsound idea for addressing carbon emissions.
Read more...Public support for co-operation, collective ownership and mutual care have persisted, despite the popularity of some of the neoliberal agenda. What policies could the left pursue to build from where we are now?
Read more...Today’s global protests are an enormous story, bigger than Occupy. Here are some of the frames that journalists are using to cover them.
Read more...A review of the literature on global protests (as in Chile, France, Hong Kong, Iraq, Lebanon, and Spain/Catalonia).
Read more...Ideas for taking on consumerism.
Read more...How Europe is creating the conditions in Africa that lead to migration….and the underlying stresses are set to get worse.
Read more...Yves here. Even thought the mainstream media, as usual, duly applauded the winners of this year’s “Nobel” prize in economics, there’s been less attention paid to the recipients than usual and far more criticism, some very measured, others more critical. The winners helped develop and promote an approach to development economics they called “randomized control […]
Read more...Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
Read more...How Trump made the long-standing border boondoggle even bigger.
Read more...Capital and Ideology is a quantitative history of inequality, a largely noneconomic theory of social stratification, an investigation into the social roots of current populism, and a political manifesto for the European left.
Read more...Why the left needs to stop being naive about the economic uses of migration.
Read more...Why exorbitant privilege may not necessarily result from having the reserve currency, but instead from the tax games multinationals play.
Read more...Mangrove forests as carbon sinks, and measures to restore them when they’ve been damaged.
Read more...Gandhi had a well-developed view on corporate goverance and influenced business leaders.
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