Capitalism & Crisis > Finance capital
The centrality of labour-power
15 Mar 2012
Moshé Machover begins his examination of the labour theory of value by looking at the preliminaries
Hiding in the shadows
05 Oct 2023
Interest rates are at a long-term high and look set to stay that way for at least a couple of years more. Michael Roberts warns that there are likely to be severe economic consequences
Staring at an electoral drubbing
05 Oct 2023
Peddling conspiracy theories, bashing the EU, migrants and the undeserving poor - no wonder Nigel Farage loved it. But, writes Eddie Ford, this year’s Tory conference was dominated by one issue: HS2
Doctors step up action
14 Sep 2023
BMA members have returned huge majorities for strike action. While the Tory government remains intransigent, there does seem to be some movement on Labour’s front bench, Richard Galen reports
Fifty years of socialist theory
20 Jul 2023
Yassamine Mather looks at the role of the journal founded by Hillel Ticktin in 1973
On its last legs
18 May 2023
Mark Zuckerberg bet the farm on virtual worlds - and lost. Paul Demarty pours one out for the metaverse
Rates up, economy down
11 May 2023
Claims by bankers that, by upping interest rates, inflation will be pulled down are fallacious. Michael Roberts presents a Marxist explanation
Still far from human
13 Apr 2023
The widespread introduction of AI is unlikely to boost profit rates and rescue capitalism from its long depression. Michael Roberts explains
Scissor blades closing
23 Jun 2022
Prices soaring, real wages falling and a new slump very much on the cards. Michael Roberts looks at the prospects for the world economy
Trouble in paradise
05 May 2022
Like other such territories, the British Virgin Islands is an outpost of corrupt City of London financial scams and operations, writes Eddie Ford
Threat of a new slump
01 Jul 2021
There has been much exaggerated talk of the dangers of inflation. But, if interest rates rise, Michael Roberts sees the zombie corporations getting into real trouble
New financial fictions
15 Apr 2021
Michael Roberts spotlights the latest ways capitalists have come up with to cheat and swindle
Financial fictions
08 Apr 2021
What Marx described as the ‘purest and most colossal form of gambling and swindling’ continues today, but on an altogether bigger scale Michael Roberts looks at some recent examples
Dilemmas of great and good
21 Jan 2021
Mainstream economists cannot provide the answers needed to revive a system mired in stagnation. Michael Roberts reports on the annual gathering of the American Economic Association
A rent-seeking economy?
03 Oct 2019
The problem lies not in ‘financialisation’, argues Michael Roberts, but in the system of capital itself.
Subjective and objective value
17 Jan 2019
Arthur Bough insists that value is labour and has therefore existed in every form of society