By Michael Roberts The picture at the top of the article is of Michael Pettis, the US professor who has put forward his arguments in
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By Michael Roberts Over the weekend President Donald Trump announced a batch of tariff increases on US imports of goods from the closest partners of
By Michael Roberts Most readers will know the news by now. DeepSeek, a Chinese AI company, released an AI model called R1 that is comparable
By Michael Roberts Every January, the World Economic Forum (WEF) convenes in the luxury ski resort of Davos, Switzerland. This year, as usual, some 3,000
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
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
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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
