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
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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
By Michael Roberts Last Friday, the US real GDP growth figures for the second quarter of 2019 were released. The annualised rate of real GDP
By Michael Roberts This week, we get the first US company reports on earnings for the second quarter of 2019. And it looks as though
By Michael Roberts The joint conference of the International Initiative for the Promotion of Political Economy (IIPP), the French Association of Political Economy (AFEP) and
By Michael Roberts Last weekend’s G20 summit in Osaka resolved nothing substantial in the ongoing trade and technology war that the US is now waging
By Michael Roberts Libra is the name that Facebook, the global social network company, is calling its planned international digital currency. What is Facebook’s purpose
By Michael Roberts Last week Martin Wolf, the Financial Times economics journalist, listed the new economics books that he would recommend for summer reading. He started off
By Michael Roberts At the weekend G20 meeting of finance ministers and central bankers in Japan, the world’s finance leaders tried to put a brave
