By Michael Roberts Branko Milanovic is the world’s leading expert on global inequality i.e the differences in income and wealth between countries and between individuals
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By Michael Roberts As we enter October, the global recession is with us – in manufacturing. The PMI (purchasing managers’ index) indices for manufacturing activity
By Michael Roberts ‘Financialisation’ has been promoted by heterodox economists as the cause of the iniquities and failures of modern capitalist economies. Now an additional
By Michael Roberts Last Thursday, Mario Draghi, the current head of the European Central bank, soon to be replaced by Christine Lagarde from the IMF,
By Michael Roberts Financial markets globally continue to gyrate on any news about the trade war between the US and China. When President Trump announced
By Michael Roberts With perfect timing, just as the summit meeting of the leaders of the top capitalist economies (G7) met in Biarritz, China announced
By Michael Roberts As the stock markets of the world gyrate up and down like a yo-yo, all talk in the financial media is on
By Michael Roberts Nothing changes in the finance sector globally, despite the catastrophic impact of the banks on the world capitalist economy in the global
BY Michael Roberts The Oxford Handbook of Karl Marx, edited by Matt Vidal, Tomas Rotta, Tony Smith and Paul Prew, brings together a series of
By Michael Roberts Mariana Mazzucato is one of the world’s most influential economists, according to Quartz magazine. She has won many awards for her work. She is
