Seeking Full Employment Without Falling Prey to Neoliberal Traps
MMT economist Bill Mitchell on the rise of neoliberal ideology across the Anglosphere and how it curbed labor.
Read more...MMT economist Bill Mitchell on the rise of neoliberal ideology across the Anglosphere and how it curbed labor.
Read more...How different economic theories, or more accurately, stories, about crises, have profound impact on policy.
Read more...Michael Hudson on China’s wobbles, Russia-China cooperation, the revolt against colonialism and neoliberalism, and the conflict in Gaza.
Read more...Fed whisperer Greg Ip expresses cautious concern about China, based on the latest IMF forecasts.
Read more...The impenetrability of this continuously expanding Ptolemaic New Keynesian monetary paradigm is maddening.
Read more...Michael Hudson clears up some of the considerable confusion about what a new BRICS “currency” would amount to.
Read more...A model finds that China closely tracked the trajectory of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Does this claim hold up to close scrutiny?
Read more...Yanis Varoufakis’ forthcoming book examines our changed economic system, which he callls “technofeudalism.”
Read more...How the end of policies supporting the material well-being of workers, aka socialism, has created widespread distress and political schisms.
Read more...Making a case from past crises that we’ll muddle through our current set and thanks to technology, eventually come out better.
Read more...Economists had to play fast and loose with economic theory to deploy their merger “efficiency” arguments.
Read more...A well-warranted takedown of the irresponsible and destructive record of mainstream economists on climate change.
Read more...A recent paper in a Russian economics journal confirms that there is no simple way out of the dollar hegemony box.
Read more...ProMarket and the Consumer Welfare Standard: Output increase is not sufficient to increase welfare. Allocation, aka distribution, matters.
Read more...Some investors are worried that climate risk means their holdings are overvalued. It would be nicer if they worried about the real world too.
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