By Michael Roberts How is the global recovery after the COVID pandemic going? The economic consensus is that the major economies are recovering fast, driven
Category: International Archive
By John Pickard It is hard to find a fitting epithet for the COP FLOP that has ended in Glasgow this weekend, but it is
By Michael Roberts János Kornai recently died at the age of 93. He was a Hungarian economist noted for his analysis and criticism of the
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) reviews the Unreported World Documentary on Channel 4, (29th October – see here). Jamal Osman, visited the Democratic Republic
By Michael Roberts Twilight capitalism: Karl Marx and the decay of the profit system is the best book on Marxist political economy in 2021. Authored
Financing the climate
By Michael Roberts COP26 trundles on in Glasgow with little sign that anything significant is being agreed towards reversing global warming and ending the degradation
By Richard Mellor in California The issue of the US military Industrial Complex, is not even on the table at COP26 in Glasgow and that
By Michael Roberts The COVID19 pandemic slump has raised poverty across the globe. JP Morgan economists have tried to measure the increase in poverty using
Editorial: COP26 will be ‘cop-out-2021’
The two biggest barriers to human progress are the private ownership of the means of production, distribution and exchange and the continuation of nation states.
By Richard Mellor in California The law, or what we call the justice system, which includes the police, the courts, the prisons and so on,