By John Pickard, Brentwood and Ongar Labour member When the Tory government lifts the ‘cap’ on energy prices in April, as a result of the
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By Michael Roberts In this second post on the annual ASSA economics conference, I look at the papers and presentations made by radical and heterodox
One of the supporters of Left Horizons has sent us this account of their personal experience of the NHS workers, the conditions they face now,
Sometimes in politics a mountain of combustible material can build up and it only takes a small spark to set it ablaze. In the case
By Michael Roberts The annual conference of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2022) took place last weekend. This year it was a virtual conference, but
By Robin Jamieson Although we carried messages on the Left Horizons Facebook page and group, the website itself did not at the time publish a
By Greg Oxley, editor of La Riposte Imperialist rivalry threatens to plunge humanity into the unspeakable horror of war, this time in Eastern Europe. The
by Abigail Pollock Child benefit used to be a bedrock of the welfare state, a benefit for those who could not work by virtue of
Price controls: do they work?
By Michael Roberts Isabelle Weber is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of How China Escaped Shock
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) reviews the recent Panorama documentary (here – shown 20-12-21) and asks “Will there be a slump?” It’s customary to