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Lucky Trump Looking Smug

By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram* SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Feb  2020 (IPS) – Meeting the President of the Republic of Korea in September 2019, President Donald J Trump bragged that the “US economy is the envy of the… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism

For Whom the Markets Toll

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Global Economy Still Slowing, Dangerously Vulnerable

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 →

Commerce, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Young People Aren’t Crazy. Capitalism Is in Trouble, and It’s Up to Us to Save It

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 →

Corruption, Economy / Finance, Elections, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism, Populism

Financialization Increases Inequality

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The Davos Set’s Most Dangerous Delusion

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism, Politics

Failures Of Neoliberalism

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 →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Neo-liberalism

The Guardian view on Davos: capitalists know they must do better

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 →

Commerce, Economy / Finance, Environment, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Technology Can’t Fix Algorithmic Injustice

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 →

Digital Age, Economy / Finance, Globalization, Information & Communication

The Science of (Not) Ending Global Poverty

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 →

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Billionaires Beware

By Anis Chowdhury * and Jomo Kwame Sundaram**   SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 7 2020 (IPS) – The latest November 2019 UBS/PwC Billionaires Report counted 2,101 billionaires globally, or 589 more than five years before. Earlier, Farhad Manjoo had seriously… Continue Reading →

Commerce, Democracy, Development, Globalization, Human Rights, Neo-liberalism, Populism, Sustainable Development

As Digital Earth gains momentum, China is setting the pace

By Davina Jackson * – The Conversation Al Gore’s 1992 forecast of a Digital Earth — where satellites beam data to reveal all the planet’s environmental dynamics – has gained momentum with the publication of the Manual of Digital Earth… Continue Reading →

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Corporate Social Responsibility Is a Sham

Robert B. Reich* – Newsweek Boeing recently fired CEO Dennis Muilenburg in order “to restore confidence in the Company moving forward as it works to repair relationships with regulators, customers, and all other stakeholders.” Restore confidence? Muilenburg’s successor will be… Continue Reading →

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Paul Volcker’s Long Shadow

By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig+ Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan called Paul Volcker “the most effective chairman in the history of the Federal Reserve.” But while Volcker, who passed away Dec. 8 at age 92, probably did have the greatest… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Five Lessons for Journalism in the Age of Rage– & Where Lies Travel Faster Than Truth

By Karin Pettersson* STOCKHOLM, Dec 3 2019 (IPS) – The news-media industry has long lamented how the digital revolution has broken its business models. Today, a majority of digital advertising money goes to Facebook and Google, and media companies are… Continue Reading →

Digital Age, Globalization, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism

DANGERS AND QUESTIONS OF THE ZUCKERBERG ERA

By Roberto Savio * Rome, Nov 14 – This year the Worldwide Web is thirty years old. For the first time since 1435, a citizen from Brazil could exchange their views and information with another in Finland. The Internet, the… Continue Reading →

Civil Society, Globalization, Information & Communication, Neo-liberalism

A New Deal for Sustainable Development

By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, Nov 13 2019 (IPS) – Almost nine decades ago, newly elected US President Franklin Roosevelt introduced the New Deal in 1933 in response to the Great Depression. The… Continue Reading →

Development, Globalization, Inequality and Social Justice, Sustainable Development

Under Real Capitalism, Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist

By Robert Reich* -Newsweek Millionaires are wailing that Elizabeth Warren’s and Bernie Sanders’s wealth tax proposals are attacks on free market capitalism. Warren “vilifies successful people,” says Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase. Rubbish. There are basically only five ways… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

Central Bankers’ Desperate Grab for Power

By Ellen Brown* – Truthdig(+) Central bankers are out of ammunition. Mark Carney, the soon-to-be-retiring head of the Bank of England, admitted as much in a speech at the annual meeting of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyo., in August. “In the longer-term,”… Continue Reading →

Economy / Finance, Globalization, Neo-liberalism

The Amazon and the hell of power

By Francesco Martone*  “Power inferno”, this is the title  Jean Baudrillard gave to one of his essays in the aftermath of the attack at the Twin Towers , paraphrasing the title of a catastrophic film that hit the billboards years earlier , A… Continue Reading →

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