Category: Economics
Attacking Medicare for All, MMT, & Socialism
Elizabeth S. Anderson: Capitalist Workplaces Set Bosses Up to Be Authoritarian TyrantsLong before the growing interest in economic inequality facing contemporary capitalist societies, radical thinkers and union organizers were concerned about the authoritarian governance in workplaces. Unfortunately, this concern seems to have taken a back seat in political philosophy during the present era. Elizabeth S. Anderson, a professor of philosophy and women’s studies at the University Read more…
Maria Svart: Capitalism Isn’t ‘Broken’. It’s Working All Too WellExploitation is a feature of capitalism, not a bug
It’s clear Trump’s 2018 tax cut is making the middle class pay for corporations, businesses, investors and the wealthiest 1% households historic tax cuts totaling no less than $4.5 trillion over the next decade
The sharp rise in suicides and overdoses under Trump exposes the truth about the U.S. economy
Autopsy reveals the British-South African corpse’s poisoning by microfinance, ‘development finance’ and corporate finance
Vince Taylor: Why Billionaires Have No Right to Their WealthHundreds of commentators have warned that extreme concentration of wealth threatens democracy and social stability. Not a day goes by without a new article with details on the unprecedented growth in income inequality and its dire consequences. Something is missing, though. No one is proposing measures that would take away wealth from the 600 or Read more…
A bona fide Constitutional Crisis is brewing in the US as Trump insists on governing for his 35% supporters and to hell with the rest of the country, and as he governs increasingly at the expense of Congress’ s constitutional rights
Reply to Doug Henwood’s Apology & Defense of Government Reports
Bottom line, however, the 3.2% GDP is no harbinger of a growing economy. Quite the contrary. It is artificial and due to temporary forces that are likely about to change