Capitalism & Crisis > Neoliberalism
Neoliberal ghosts and the art of brevity
16 Sep 2010
Jack Conrad answers criticisms of the CPGB's Draft programme in the second of a three-part article
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
Friedman doctrine in 21st century
17 Dec 2020
Monopolies are rule-makers and rule-breakers, but attempts to ensure free competition are utopian in the extreme, says Michael Roberts
Bankruptcy of neoliberalism
19 Mar 2020
With countries everywhere on a ‘war footing’, writes Eddie Ford, the pandemic shows the necessity of global social control.
Inequality soars worldwide
16 May 2019
While the rich have never had it so good, writes Michael Roberts, the risks are increasing
Supply and demand quandary
13 Dec 2018
Both neoclassical and Keynesian economics have got it wrong, writes Michael Roberts
Free-trade tailism
22 Nov 2018
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty has enlisted a clipped version of Marx and Engels to serve its political agenda. In the first of two articles Mike Macnair looks at the claims of free trade and protectionism
Universal credit: designed to punish undeserving poor
18 Oct 2018
Rollout of the new benefit is widely recognised as being in chaos, and the immediate answer lies in breaking with the politics of austerity, writes Eddie Ford
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
Trump, trade and the tech war
12 Apr 2018
With globalisation and growth on pause for a decade, Trump’s trade wars aim to keep the biggest US hi-tech and intellectual property companies on top, argues Michael Roberts
Costs of commodification
15 Mar 2018
Pharmaceutical companies routinely fail to publish negative results of research into new drugs. James Linney looks at the case of antidepressants
‘Wrong sort’ of privatisation
01 Mar 2018
In the first of two articles, Yassamine Mather examines the development of Iran’s economy since the Islamic revolution
Charities and purity politics
01 Mar 2018
As the Oxfam affair unfolds, Paul Demarty asks why the wave of sexual harassment scandals has given more ammunition to the right than the left
Health service we need
01 Feb 2018
James Linney looks at who benefits from privatisation
‘Dead end’ of privatisation
25 Jan 2018
The collapse of Carillion blows apart a key myth, argues Michael Roberts
With great skill
18 Jan 2018
James Linney urges resistance to the ‘organisation of misery’