Capitalism & Crisis
The decline of money
01 Mar 2012
If we are to understand the present crisis we need to grasp the decaying relationship between money, production and value. Hillel Ticktin discusses the growth of fictitious capital and impossibility of getting money to make money
Working class trade policy
20 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair concludes his series on ‘free trade’ by looking at the positive alternative
Supply and demand quandary
13 Dec 2018
Both neoclassical and Keynesian economics have got it wrong, writes Michael Roberts
Free-trade illusions
13 Dec 2018
Mike Macnair continues his argument against tailing the liberals
Trade, tariffs and financial stability
06 Dec 2018
According to the Federal Reserve, writes Michael Roberts, the risk of another recession is no longer ‘negligible’
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism
Marx’s formulae confirmed
08 Nov 2018
Michael Roberts looks at the latest figures on the US rate of profit
Universal credit: designed to punish undeserving poor
18 Oct 2018
Rollout of the new benefit is widely recognised as being in chaos, and the immediate answer lies in breaking with the politics of austerity, writes Eddie Ford
Regulation does not work
11 Oct 2018
We need ownership and control of the banks, argues Michael Roberts
More momentum on the banks
04 Oct 2018
Real measures to control finance are needed, argues Michael Roberts
Keynesianism is no alternative
20 Sep 2018
Michael Roberts reports on the range of illusions on display at a recent international conference
Too modest by half
13 Sep 2018
John McDonnell’s ‘radical’ plans to overhaul company ownership forget about the state - Jim Grant argues that the state will not forget about John McDonnell
Rethinking economics
16 Aug 2018
Attempts to broaden debate in university economics departments should be applauded, writes Michael Roberts
World trade and imperialism
02 Aug 2018
US hegemony is under threat from China, Russia and India, writes Michael Roberts
The Keynesian dilemma
19 Jul 2018
Will it be free trade or protectionism? Michael Roberts examines the contending views
A $1 trillion trade war
12 Jul 2018
Michael Roberts looks at the likely end result of Trump’s new tariffs