It’s time to put money out of its misery
Why are discussions about poverty so often held in luxurious surroundings? Perhaps it’s easier to think that way, without any poor people in the room to muddy the proceedings
economic inequality
Income Inequality: A Primer on Inequality and Economic Growth
Maybe inequality or equality determine growth rather than vice versa.
Ukraine: another complex revolution
It is easily forgotten that the inspiration for the wave of ‘city square’ movements that swept southern Europe and North America back in 2011 lay in the revolutions of the Middle East and North Africa
The Poverty of Capitalism: roundtable
It’s as if you have a terrible heart attack and surgery, you’ve just come out of intensive care and the doctor says there’s no need to change anything of your previous life, don’t exercise much and keep up your intake of fatty foods!
The Hunger Games Are Real: Teenage Fans Remind the World What Katniss Is Really Fighting For
This week, millions of Americans will gather in theaters to see The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. While for many the film is little more than big-budget Hollywood pop fare, for others the story will dramatically shape the way they see the world’s economic situation.
“We Are Living in the World Occupy Made”: New York City Voters Elect Mayor Who Vows to Tax the Rich
We begin today with a look at how Tuesday’s election signaled a sea change in New York City as voters chose a candidate who repeatedly emphasized his progressive vision.
Introduction to the Finance Curse
A new book, The Finance Curse, argues that far from being a "golden goose", having an oversized financial sector is seriously damaging to an economy.
The resource curse, or the paradox of poverty from plenty
Is finance like crude oil? Countries rich in minerals are often poverty-stricken, corrupt and violent.
Two Years After Occupy Wall Street, a Network of Offshoots Continue Activism for the 99%
The movement is a network at this point and that is what is most important…that we met each other.
American Intellectuals’ Widespread Failure to Stand Up to Billionaires and Authoritarian Power
Given the considerable resources in the United States spent to subsidize intellectual work, why are so many intellectuals—journalists, academics, writers—not critiquing the many hierarchical institutions and not highlighting the disastrous consequences of these systems?
Prosperous Equality
Let’s occupy, spring, resist, protest, strike, plan, discuss, persuade and revolt.
Economics and the End of Growth – May 2
•The death of innovation, the end of growth •Argument: Is it time to ditch the pursuit of economic growth? •The End of Growth? •Global Wealth Inequality – What you never knew you never knew •There’s no need for all this economic sadomasochism