Government Austerity is Costing Lives in the Fight to Contain COVID-19
The Following is an expanded version of a Radio Commentary delivered over WAMC-FM on March 6, 2020 by Michael Meeropol,
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Doug Henwood on Neoliberalism – A History of How the Super-Rich Stole Democracy
https://soundcloud.com/historic_ly/ep-21-neoliberalism-a-history-of-how-the-superrich-stole-democrac
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
By Charles Umney, Ian Greer, Özlem Onaran, Graham Symon Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 fi
New Book: Money and Government – The Past and Future of Economics
By Robert Skidelsky. From Yale University Press: A critical examination of economics’ past and future,
Babbling budget: IMF Clearing ground for more austerity
By John Weeks, Drugs and much of the food we eat are required to carry health warnings. It is unfortunate that the author
John Weeks: Progressive Economy Forum
By John Weeks, On 16 May 2018 in one of the committee rooms of the Houses of Parliament, MP Caroline Lucas, leader of the Gr
Save UMass Boston’s Urban Mission!
UMass Boston is the only 4-year public university in Boston and the only campus in the UMass system whose students are pr
John Weeks on Austerity
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNjxoTeXFi4&w=678&h=509] John Weeks explains why one does n
New Book: Beyond Defeat and Austerity – Disrupting (the Critical Political Economy of) Neoliberal Europe
By David J Bailey, Mònica Clua-Losada, Nikolai Huke, Olatz Ribera-Almandoz. From Routledge: Much of the critical dis
New Book: Austerity vs Stimulus – The Political Future of Economic Recovery
Edited by Robert Skidelsky & Nicolò Fraccarol. From Palgrave: This timely book debates the economic and politica
New Book: Varieties of Alternative Economic Systems – Practical Utopias for an Age of Global Crisis and Austerity
From Routledge. Edited by Richard Westra, Robert Albritton, Seongjin Jeong In this age of overlapping and mutually re
New Book: States of Discipline – Authoritarian Neoliberalism and the Contested Reproduction of Capitalist Order
From Rowman & Littlefield. Edited by Cemal Burak Tansel: Despite the severity of the global economic crisis and th
New Book by Owen Hatherley: The Ministry of Nostalgia – Consuming Austerity
From Verso: Why should we have to “Keep Calm and Carry On”? In this brilliant polemical rampage, Owen Hatherley shows ho
Special issue of Nova Economia on Austerity and (Lack of) Growth
Originally posted here Editorial Introduction – Fiscal Austerity and Economic Growth Laura Barbosa de Carval
New Book: The Political Economy of Emerging Markets – Varieties of BRICS in Age of Global Crises & Austerity
From Routledge: Rapid and sustained growth in the 21st century global economy of large developing economies includin
Prospects for the Spanish Left
By William Saas, Jorge Amar, David Glotzer, and Scott Ferguson, […] Improvisation is the name of the game for mem
New Book by Helena Sheehan: The Syriza Wave – Surging and Crashing with the Greek Left
From Monthly Review Press: Utterly corrupt corporate and government elites bankrupted Greece twice over. First, by p
Dean Baker: The Old Debt and Entitlement Charade
By Dean Baker, The establishment is trying to pull a big one over on the public yet again. One of the designated topics for
TANF didn’t fight poverty, full employment did
By Virginia Rutter Welfare reform hits 20 this month. The Center for Economic and Policy Research has done much work exa
James K. Galbraith: From the Destruction of Greece to Democracy in Europe
by James K. Galbraith, In protesting the Treaty of Versailles ending World War I, John Maynard Keynes wrote: “The polic