By Michael Roberts Empirical evidence on economic inequality has mushroomed in the last two decades. I refer here to economic inequality (income and wealth) as
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By Michael Roberts Next week US president Joe Biden finishes his term of office, to be replaced by the Donald. Biden would have been extremely
ASSA 2025 part two: the radical – climate, labour and imperialism
By Michael Roberts In part two of my report on the proceedings of ASSA 2025, I look at the sessions of radical economics organised by
By Michael Roberts Every year, I report on the annual proceedings of ASSA, the Alliance of Social Science Associations, run by the American Economics Association.
By Michael Roberts It’s time to make some forecasts on what will happen to the world economy and its major countries in 2025. Many people
By Michael Roberts I have long been sympathetic to the concept of long cycles in capitalist production and accumulation. This is the idea that capitalist
By Michael Roberts This post was first published in the Spanish online journal Sin Permiso and is in response to a critique of my long
By Michael Roberts Ascension Mejorado is Clinical Professor and Economics Faculty Chair in the Liberal Studies program at New York University and Manuel Roman taught
By Michael Roberts Back last November, the excellent Argentine Marxist economist, Rolando Astarita presented on his blog the case for ‘overproduction’ as the cause of
By Michael Roberts It’s one year since the self proclaimed ‘anarcho-capitalist’ Javier Milei became President of Argentina. He took power in a country where annual