Hoisted from E-Mail: Puzzling Out the UK’s Shambolic Approach to Brexit
Trying to make sense of the UK’s Brexit pathology.
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Growing Inequality Under Global Capitalism
The benefits of capitalism are accruing even more to a very few at the top.
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 3
On the current structure of globalization and its implications for the distribution of income within and between countries.
Read more...UN Panel Strives to Improve Access to Medicines: TRNN Interview with Celso Amorim
TRNN interview with Celso Amorim on which priorities should prevail when intellectual property protection collides with public health.
Read more...The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System: 1958 to 1971
Even though the Bretton Woods system was short lived, legacies like the dollar standard remain and are likely to be with us for some time.
Read more...America is Regressing into a Developing Nation for Most People
Like developing countries, America is becoming more stratified, with the economic and physical distance between rich and poor widening.
Read more...Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) Suits Become Favored Hedge Fund Investment
ISDS suits are increasingly getting financial backing from speculators like hedge funds.
Read more...Mexico’s Economy Is Being Plundered Dry
Some vignettes of Mexico as a failed state.
Read more...More Brexit Miscalculations: UK Can Have Industrial Policy Only With Hard Brexit
The UK government wants industrial policy reforms that are incompatible with EU rules. Those rules would apply save in a hard Brexit.
Read more...The Brexit Situation is Developing Not Necessarily to the UK’s Advantage
We’ve been neglecting Brexit due to Trump going uber hawkish and the resulting barrage of news stories to sort through. And another reason is that the noise to signal ratio got even higher in the British media around the time Brexit became official. Formal progress will be virtually nil till late May. The UK and […]
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 2
How the the new international economic architecture for trade, investment, & property rights hurt workers in advanced and developing economies
Read more...Faster Fashion Cycle Accelerates
Sustainable fashion initiatives face huge obstacles in displacing fast fashion’s popularity, despite fair labor and environmental concerns.
Read more...The Clean Carbon Bad Joke
How viable are “cleaner” coal technologies? And can carbon sequestration save the day?
Read more...Globalization and the End of the Labor Aristocracy, Part 1
How labor benefitted from imperialism, and how its advantages were eroded as multinationals became important as international enforcers.
Read more...The Global Industrial Working Class
Why industrial workers are better positioned than most observers think…just not in the US and many other Northern Hemisphere countries.
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