- Break away from conventional trickle-down economics.
A future-friendly economics is necessary, and possible.Poverty is man-made, and not inevitable.
Produced by a myopic worldview, there is an alternative.
Monthly Archives: August 2014
I Spend, Therefore I Am
I Spend, Therefore I Am by Edward Skidelsky to read Edward Skidelsky’s review of Philip Roscoe’s book published January 21, 2014 in The Guardian, click on http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jan/23/spend-therefore-philip-roscoe-review I Spend, Therefore I Am is a splendid denunciation of the dismal science … Continue reading
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The unconditional basic income – a social concept for Europe, 38pp
The time is right for alternative economics after the “money-out-of-nothing” phase. The financial markets must be shrivelled and the public sectors expanded. Profit-making is different than profit-maximizing. Economics as now taught is like brainwashing (cf. Christoph Thielemann). The neoliberal model … Continue reading
Anti-Democratic Straitjackets by Pia Eberhardt
Anti-Democratic Straitjackets Pia Eberhardt e-mail: [email protected] http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2014/08/427871.shtml The TTIP Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (sometimes called TAFTA) is an anti-democratic corporate investment agreement that allows corporations to sue sovereign states for loss of expected profits. This free trade agreement negotiated … Continue reading
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Who Cares? A Feminist Critique of the Care Economy
to read the 28-page study “Who Cares? A Feminist Critique of the Care Economy” published in August 2014 by the Rosa Luxemburg foundation, click on http://www.rosalux.de/fileadmin/rls_uploads/pdfs/sonst_publikationen/folbre_whocares.pdf We live in an increasingly uncaring world. Patriarchal capitalism offers rich financial rewards to … Continue reading
TTIP: Threat to Democracy and the Constitutional State
The TTIP. the largest free trade zone comprising 800 million of the EU and the US, is being secretly negotiated. Democracy and the constitutional state are threatened by 3-person arbitration courts where corporations can sue states and decisions are irreversible. … Continue reading
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Self-Determination Means Market Determination
We face the continuing dissolution of traditional types, forms and rules, not a new type, a new form or a new rule… What was once called estrangement or objectification should appear as workers’ own interest. Corresponding to the market has … Continue reading
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