By Michael Roberts Major stock markets are hovering near all-time highs and commodity prices (food and materials) are rocketing. At the other end of the
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By Michael Roberts Professor David Harvey is probably the best-known scholar of Marxist economics in the world. Over the years, Professor Harvey and I have
By Michael Roberts Next weekend, the central bankers of the world meet in a slimmed down COVID annual jamboree at Jackson Hole, Wyoming US. The
By Michael Roberts The swift collapse of the Afghanistan puppet government when US troops withdrew from the war with the Taliban and left the country
By Michael Roberts A December 2020 meeting of the Chinese Communist party Politburo, vowed to end what it called a “disorderly expansion of capital”. The
By Michael Roberts The Austrian school of economics is outside the mainstream. The Austrians start from micro-assumptions. This is not the neoclassical view of rational,
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Global warming: planning not pricing
By Michael Roberts Carbon pricing and carbon taxes are now proposed by international institutions and mainstream economics as the main solutions to ending global warming
By Michael Roberts Recently, I made a short presentation to a discussion group of the Communist Party of India (M) youth on Marx’s reproduction schema.
By Michael Roberts This weekend (12-13 June 2021), the leaders of the ‘free world’ are flying (and helicoptering) into Cornwall, at the tiny end of
By Michael Roberts Today, 25 million Peruvians vote in the second round of a crucial Presidential election. The voters are being asked to choose between
