Capitalism & Crisis > Keynesianism
Global fight for reforms
16 Feb 2012
Mike Macnair concludes his article on the alternative to nationalistic Keynesianism
Was the economy, stupid
07 Nov 2024
What effect will the new president’s policies have on the US economy? Will real wages rise? What about profits? Michael Roberts investigates
Delusions of techno-fix
01 Aug 2024
Instead of dealing with the root causes of the climate crisis, there is a frantic search for technological solutions. However, argues Jack Conrad, there is a real danger of making what is already bad, badder still
Best hope for progress?
04 Jul 2024
Michael Roberts reviews Ruchir Sharma What went wrong with capitalism? Allen Lane 2024, pp384, £10.99
Monetarism and its discontents
09 May 2024
Most mainstream economists still imagine that high interest rates are the most effective way to fight inflation. Michael Roberts begs to differ. Inflation is less a demand, more a supply issue
Desperately seeking martyrdom
23 Nov 2023
With the Tories facing an electoral drubbing and having no coherent strategy, Rishi Sunak is reduced to day-to-day politicking, writes Eddie Ford
Driving the green wedge
28 Sep 2023
Rishi Sunak’s sudden U-turn is the result of desperation … and a leak, writes Eddie Ford. Meanwhile, yet another authoritative report shows that yet another climate record is in danger of being broken
Road leading nowhere
06 Jul 2023
After 75 years the NHS has been driven into permanent crisis. The government’s ‘comprehensive workforce plan’ is no solution, it is mere electioneering, writes Ian Spencer
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
Recipe for conflict
27 Apr 2023
Michael Roberts examines the continued role of the dollar, despite the hype about US decline and a multipolar world economy
Alternative to ‘restraint’
21 Apr 2022
Neither establishment explanation for the cause of inflation is valid, argues Michael Roberts
Contradictions and ambiguities
09 Dec 2021
Market socialism, capitalism with Chinese characteristics, or a workers’ state? Michael Roberts takes issue with three recent books
Marxist monetary theory
07 Oct 2021
It is profit, not government spending, that drives capitalist investment, writes Michael Roberts
A political system test
23 Sep 2021
Joe Biden is attempting to reverse US imperial decline through a neo-Keynesian turn, argues Jim Creegan
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
Decline in profitability
03 Jun 2021
Capitalism’s productivity failure can best be explained by Marxist theory, writes Michael Roberts