By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 2020 (IPS) – The United Nations, which has long preached the irrefutable concept of income equality to the outside world, is now accused of condoning wage discrimination in its own backyard. The message… Continue Reading
Reed Hundt* – Boston Review Ben Bernanke, Timothy Geithner, and Henry Paulson still have not reckoned with the failures of neoliberal planning in the wake of the financial crisis More than a decade after the financial crises of 2008, the… Continue Reading
The Economist After data protection, artificial intelligence, competition and more. The Brussels effect, cont BERLIN AND SAN FRANCISCO – MARK ZUCKERBERG might not have liked everything he heard, but Facebook’s boss got the timing right for a recent visit to… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 18 2020 (IPS) – In an annual ritual early in the year, most major economic organizations have released forecasts for the global economy in 2020. Incredibly,… Continue Reading
By Thalif Deen* UNITED NATIONS, Feb 17 2020 (IPS) – When President Saddam Hussein ran one of the world’s most authoritarian regimes in the militarily-volatile Middle East during 1979-2003, US newspapers routinely described him as “the strongman of Iraq” —… Continue Reading
By William Hartung* – TomDispatch.com When it came to war, this year’s State of the Union Address, given by a president who had, at least in part, been voted into office for criticizing America’s “endless wars” and the military high… Continue Reading
THE ECONOMIST The government steps up support, not to boost growth but to ensure social stability RARELY HAVE plans in China fallen apart so swiftly, so publicly. On January 12th the leaders of Hubei declared that the province’s GDP would… Continue Reading
BY NETA C. CRAWFORD* – THE CONVERSATION The figure includes $838 billion in “emergency” and “overseas contingency operation” funding and $59 billion spent by the State Department and USAID on Iraq and Syria Even if the U.S. administration decided to leave — or was evicted… Continue Reading
By Mark Joseph*- Newsweek “America will never be a socialist country,” President Donald Trump declared at last year’s State of the Union address. But at least 51 percent of Americans aged 18 to 29 have a favorable view of socialism.… Continue Reading
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Michael Lim Mah Hui (*) KUALA LUMPUR and PENANG, Feb 4 2020 (IPS) – Financialization has worsened inequality through various channels, including macroeconomic policies. For example, quantitative easing and low, if not negative interest rates… Continue Reading
By Conor Lynch * – Truthdig Few thinkers are more deserving of criticism than Milton Friedman. Not only was he the late 20th century’s leading proponent of unfettered capitalism, he served as one of the intellectual fathers of the neoliberal ideology… Continue Reading
Mike Konczal – Roosevelt Institute SUMMARY: INTRODUCTION Over the past several decades, an empirical revolution in economics has undermined many of the assumptions of the reigning approach to economic policy, which we refer to here as “neoliberalism.” This issue brief elevates… Continue Reading
By Kunda Dixit* ABU DHABI, Jan 29 2020 (IPS) – The increased frequency of climate-induced weather extremes and public opinion pressure are forcing even major fossil fuel exporting countries in West Asia to make a big push towards renewable energy.… Continue Reading
The Economist The 2020s are poised to be to energy firms what the 2010s were to utilities—disruptive As revolutionary slogans go, it hardly had the resonance of ¡No pasarán! But when Repsol, a Spanish oil company, said in December it would reduce the… Continue Reading
Anthony Harwood * – Newsweek It’s hard not to be astonished by Saudi Arabia’s arrogant belief that it can do whatever it likes. It comes from being disgustingly rich and having everyone suck up to you, I suppose. But this… Continue Reading
By BBC Panorama Team Leaked documents reveal how Africa’s richest woman made her fortune through exploiting her own country, and corruption. Isabel dos Santos got access to lucrative deals involving land, oil, diamonds and telecoms when her father was president… Continue Reading
Editorial The climate crisis and social unrest could finally force corporate leaders to think beyond the profit motive When Klaus Schwab founded the World Economic Forum in an Alpine ski resort in 1971, he wasn’t to know that the 30-year… Continue Reading
Annette Zimmermann, Elena Di Rosa, Hochan Kim – Boston Review We need greater democratic oversight of AI not just from developers and designers, but from all members of society. A great deal of recent public debate about artificial intelligence has… Continue Reading
By Gerry Rodgers, Michael Hopkins and Rolph van der Hoeven (*) Louis Emmerij, who died on 26 November 2019 at the age of 84, was for many years one of the leading figures in international development policy and research. Big… Continue Reading
By Aparna Gopalan* – The Nation The 2019 Nobel Prize winners in economics represent a new strain of neoliberal thought. In 1974, the neoliberal Austrian economist Friedrich Hayek was awarded the newly instituted Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in… Continue Reading
