By Michael Roberts There was a tortuous and painful end to COP29, the international climate change conference held in oil-rich Baku, Azerbaijan. The main issue
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By Michael Roberts Marx is often famously quoted from Capital that “Capital is dead labour, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labour, and lives
By Michael Roberts At this year’s Historical Materialism conference, I attended a session on what is called ‘fossil fuel capitalism’. Lukas Slothius from the LSE
By Michael Roberts Every year the Historical Materialism journal holds a conference in London. It is attended by (mostly) academics and students (mostly of a
By Michael Roberts As the FT put it: “In the end, it wasn’t even close. A presidential election long forecast to dance on a knife’s
By Michael Roberts The newly elected Labour government’s first budget has just been presented. Rachel Reeves, the UK finance minister (called Chancellor of the Exchequer
By David Cartwright, Glasgow ‘Total Trust: Surveillance State’ is a 2023 documentary from the Storyville series. It looks at the pervasive surveillance operations put in
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 26 October 2024. The original article can be found here. The featured
By Michael Roberts This week the IMF-World Bank semi-annual meeting takes place in Washington, US. At the same time, the BRICS+ group meets in Kazan,
By Michael Roberts Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson and James A Robinson have been awarded the Nobel (really the Riksbank prize) in economics “for studies of
