Capitalism & Crisis > Keynesianism
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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
The Keynesian dilemma
19 Jul 2018
Will it be free trade or protectionism? Michael Roberts examines the contending views
Negotiating with guns
08 Mar 2018
Donald Trump’s tariffs are about politics, not economic renaissance, argues Paul Demarty
‘Dead end’ of privatisation
25 Jan 2018
The collapse of Carillion blows apart a key myth, argues Michael Roberts
How about thinking like a Marxist?
22 Jun 2017
Chris Gray reviews: Kate Raworth Doughnut economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist Random House Business Books, 2017, pp384, £20
Keynes or Marx?
18 May 2017
What is capital’s driving force? Michael Roberts explores the profit-investment nexus
Unplanning delusions
11 May 2017
The collapse of the Soviet Union does not prove that planning is impossible, argues Mike Macnair
Inequality reaches new high
23 Feb 2017
Marx’s prediction 150 years ago that capitalism would lead to greater concentration of wealth has been borne out, writes Michael Roberts
Capital’s wishful thinking
15 Dec 2016
Sections of the ruling class are now optimistic that Donald Trump will implement pro-business measures. But will they work? Michael Roberts analyses the likely impact of ‘Trumponomics’
Cycles within cycles
01 Dec 2016
Nick Rogers reviews: Michael Roberts, 'The long depression: how it happened, why it happened and what happens next', Haymarket Books, 2016, pp360, £14.99
Social democratic corporate management?
31 Mar 2016
There is no common political interest between the working class and productive capital, writes Mike Macnair
There are no national solutions
22 Oct 2015
Yassamine Mather pinpoints the problem with Jeremy Corbyn’s alternative economic policies
Good for the working class?
15 Oct 2015
Michael Roberts examines the inadequacies of Corbynomics
Pitfalls of Corbynomics
03 Sep 2015
While the right is aghast at Jeremy Corbyn’s economic plans, Paul Demarty wonders just how radical they really are