By Michael Roberts The G20 summit meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ended with an agreement to disagree. They agreed to disagree about maintaining multilateral trade
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By Michael Roberts This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. Historical Materialism covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political,
By Michael Roberts The mid-term Congressional elections saw a swing to the opposition Democrats in the Lower House and the Republicans were ousted as the
By Michael Roberts Was Keynes the great internationalist who aimed to make capitalism a stable system through macro management on a world scale? This is
By Michael Roberts Was Keynes a revolutionary in economic thought and policy? Was he at least radical in his ideas? Or was he a reactionary
By Michael Roberts Jerome Powell, the Trump-appointed Chair of the US Federal Reserve, spoke to the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) this week. He told
By Michael Roberts At the weekend, I participated in a session on what to do about the banks at the Momentum fringe of Labour Party
Lord Skidelsky and Keynes’ big idea By Michael Roberts Last night, Lord Robert Skidelsky spoke to the UK’s Progressive Economy Forum (PEF) in London. He was
By Michael Roberts Larry Summers is one of the world’s leading Keynesian economists, a former Treasury Secretary under President Clinton, a candidate previously for the
By Michael Roberts The Institute of Public Policy Research (IPPR) claims it is “the UK’s pre-eminent progressive think tank”. It is backed and funded by many
