By Michael Roberts The latest employment report from the OECD is a real eye-opener on the cost of living crisis and whether wage rises or
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By Michael Roberts Branko Milanovic, former chief economist at the World Bank, has become the leading analyst on global inequality. Starting with his book, Worlds
By Michael Roberts Global economic growth is slowing. There is a global manufacturing recession already in place: the latest surveys of economic activity in the
By Michael Roberts It was the tercentenary of the birth of Adam Smith this month. Nobody is quite sure on what day Smith was born
By Michael Roberts The 2023 Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC23) ended in London last Friday. It was a continuation of the cycle of meetings beginning in
On the concept of “Time-poverty”
By Rugveda Sawant, India This article has been submitted to Left Horizons by Rugveda Sawant who is an architect and independent researcher, based out of
By Michael Roberts Next week 300 international organisations and 100 heads of state meet in Paris to discuss how “to build a more responsive, fairer
By Michael Roberts Last month, the US National Security Advisor, Jake Sullivan, outlined the international economic policy of the US administration. This was a pivotal
By Guglielmo Carchedi on the Michael Roberts blog Michael Roberts: I invited my close colleague and joint author of our latest book, Guglielmo Carchedi, to
By Michael Roberts The European Central Bank (ECB) turned 25 years on 1 June. The ECB is at the centre of the so-called euro experiment