By Michael Roberts This week, the jamboree of the rich global elite of the World Economic Forum (WEF) has started again after the COVID interregnum.
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By Michael Roberts The inflation rate for consumer prices in the US has clearly peaked and is falling steadily. The latest figure for year-on-year inflation
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Chelsea Manning’s autobiography: exposing the dark secrets of US imperialism.
Ray Goodspeed reviews “README.txt” (2022 – The Bodley Head/Penguin Random House) Chelsea Manning’s life-story, described in this book (named after the computer file she uploaded
By Michael Roberts In some ways, the radical sessions at ASSA (Allied Social Science Associations) were disappointing. As far as I could tell there were
By Michael Roberts As usual, there were hundreds of sessions and papers at this year’s ASSA 2023, the annual conference of the American Economics Association
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Polycrisis and depression in the 21st century
By Michael Roberts ‘Polycrisis’ is the buzz word among leftists right now. The word expresses the coming together and interlocking of various crises: economic (inflation
By Michael Roberts At the end of every year, I attempt to make a forecast on what will happen in the world economy in the
By Michael Roberts Can global capitalism endure? William Robinson tries to answer this question in his book entitled with the same question. Robinson is professor
By our correspondent in Moscow In April, Left Horizons carried a report on a strike by delivery workers in Moscow. Their wages and conditions had
By Michael Roberts Every year, I analyse the US rate of profit on capital. This is because the US data is the best and most
