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
Still stuck in the Jackson Hole
15 Sep 2016
It is profits that matter and investment that decides, writes Michael Roberts
Time running out fast
08 Sep 2016
Capitalism is a system unfit to cope with the ecological crisis, writes Eddie Ford
Abstraction in style
01 Sep 2016
George Monbiot How did we get into this mess? Politics, equality, nature Verso Books, 2014, pp352, £16.99
Festival of nationalism
04 Aug 2016
This year’s Olympics are even more grotesque than normal, writes Eddie Ford
Brexit, TTIP and TPP
21 Jul 2016
Michael Roberts examines a possible effect of a British withdrawal from the European Union
Fear, confusion and delusions
30 Jun 2016
Left responses to the referendum result vary from despondency to total exuberance. Both are misplaced, argues Paul Demarty
Brexit, China and the Fed
23 Jun 2016
The prospect of a global recession is very real, writes Michael Roberts
Gulag conditions are the new norm
16 Jun 2016
Jeremy Corbyn is spreading illusions about the ‘progressive’ nature of the EU bureaucracy, writes Eddie Ford
Not so new economics
26 May 2016
Michael Roberts reports on John McDonnell’s plan to ‘transform capitalism’
Social democratic stepping stone
19 May 2016
Arthur Bough responds to Mike Macnair
No substitute for politics
05 May 2016
Is it really as simple as ‘social networks vs the hierarchies’? Yassamine Mather takes issue with Paul Mason
Rising to the heights and beyond
28 Apr 2016
What is art and can it survive? Paul Demarty investigates
Consistent, realistic, verifiable
28 Apr 2016
Michael Roberts reviews: Fred Moseley, 'Money and totality', Brill, 2016, pp436, £102
Panama and how we are ruled
14 Apr 2016
Tax havens are an integral part of modern neoliberal capitalism, argues Yassamine Mather
Close down offshore
14 Apr 2016
Transnational companies and the super-rich routinely get away with not paying taxes. But, writes Michael Roberts, something can be done about it