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
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
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
Capitalism and sovereign money
21 Jun 2018
Financial crises cannot be avoided simply through bypassing the commercial banks, argues 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
Zombies and the new volatility
15 Feb 2018
The ‘Goldilocks’ days of cheap money are coming to an end, Eddie Ford looks at the consequences
Chinese bank's alternative to Marxism
08 Feb 2018
Is ‘trading economics’ China’s new ‘ideologically acceptable’ theory of capitalism? Michael Roberts looks at the thoughts of a major figure in the People’s Bank of China
Ten years later
10 Aug 2017
What has the bourgeoisie learnt from the 2007-08 crash? Not a great deal, writes Michael Roberts
Optimism and pessimism
29 Jun 2017
What is the nature of capitalist crises? Paul B Smith weighs up two contending views
Seize, occupy, requisition
29 Jun 2017
Eddie Ford welcomes Jeremy Corbyn’s militant approach to the housing crisis
Civilisation and the ‘long run’
06 Apr 2017
Will the Keynesian radicals become mainstream conservatives when the long depression ends? It is capitalism itself that is the problem, argues Michael Roberts
Creating a level playing field
16 Mar 2017
How is the law used to protect the interests of capital? Michael Roberts discusses the tension between competition and monopoly