By Michael Roberts This article was originally published on 24 February 2023, the day before the Nigerian presidential elections, by Michael Roberts on his blog
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By Michael Roberts It’s just a year since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I am not going to discuss the politics of this war in
By Michael Roberts There has been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy since the beginning of the year. At the
By Gray Allan, Falkirk Labour Party member On Wednesday 15th February there was a shock announcement in Scotland with Nicola Sturgeon calling, at very short
By Michael Roberts In his latest book, FT columnist and Keynesian guru Martin Wolf, starts from the premise that capitalism and democracy go together like
By Michael Roberts “The theories of John Maynard Keynes provide the sound intellectual framework for the views which trade unionists had always instinctively held and
By Michael Roberts Three of the major central banks met and raised their policy interest rates yet again in the so-called ‘fight against inflation’. Interest-rate
By Michael Roberts Meeting the social needs of the world’s population through the production of goods and services depends on the amount of labour employed
By Michael Roberts China is in deep trouble. Its zero-COVID policy has failed; the economy has slowed to a halt; it now has a falling
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Davos 23: going pear-shaped
By Michael Roberts This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum.
