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
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
Capitalism and sovereign money
21 Jun 2018
Financial crises cannot be avoided simply through bypassing the commercial banks, argues Michael Roberts
When will the crunch come?
17 May 2018
Capital is facing a global debt crisis, warns Michael Roberts
Push them to the left
03 May 2018
According to a new book, today it is the managers, not the capitalists, who rule. Michael Roberts begs to differ
Trump, trade and the tech war
12 Apr 2018
With globalisation and growth on pause for a decade, Trump’s trade wars aim to keep the biggest US hi-tech and intellectual property companies on top, argues Michael Roberts
Costs of commodification
15 Mar 2018
Pharmaceutical companies routinely fail to publish negative results of research into new drugs. James Linney looks at the case of antidepressants
Negotiating with guns
08 Mar 2018
Donald Trump’s tariffs are about politics, not economic renaissance, argues Paul Demarty
The role of ideology
08 Mar 2018
At the end of the day the religious state functions in a way not dissimilar to that of the liberal bourgeoisie in the west, argues Yassamine Mather
‘Wrong sort’ of privatisation
01 Mar 2018
In the first of two articles, Yassamine Mather examines the development of Iran’s economy since the Islamic revolution
Charities and purity politics
01 Mar 2018
As the Oxfam affair unfolds, Paul Demarty asks why the wave of sexual harassment scandals has given more ammunition to the right than the left