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Monthly Archives: December 2014
Ways out of Capitalism by Tomasz Konicz
This introduction to Tomasz Konicz’ “On the Search for Alternatives to the Permanent Capitalism Crisis” (2014) is translated from the German. “The disintegration of the capitalist world system began long ago in its periphery… Capitalism perishes in its hyper-productivity and … Continue reading
Thy Kingdom Come by Friedrich Schorlemmer
Thy Kingdom Come by Friedrich Schorlemmer http://www.oocities.org/marc_batko/thykingdom.html Friedrich Schorlemmer was born in 1944 in Wittenburg. Since the beginning of the seventies, he was engaged in the peace- and environmental movements of the DDR (east Germany). From 1970 to 1978, Schorlemmer … Continue reading
Free Internet Book: The Neoliberal Crisis, 108pp
Free Internet Book: The Neoliberal Crisis, ed. by Jonathan Rutherford and Sally Davison, 2012, 108pp, published by Soundings http://www.lwbooks.co.uk/ebooks/The_Neoliberal_crisis.pdf A collection of essays that seeks to understand the current financial crisis as a potential moment of rupture in the neoliberal … Continue reading
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Economics is Onesided and Reactionary
The model of the person in economics is the so-called homo oeconomicus who perfectly surveys the market, clearly foresees the future development and then rationally decides upon an action, optimally adjusted to all relevant data, that creates the greatest economic … Continue reading
Video: “Dark Legacy” (2009) on the Kennedy assassination, 1 hr 20 min
Here’s a link to “Dark Legacy,” a one-hour video on the Kennedy assassination: http://vimeo.com/44581567
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Victory of the Economy over Democracy and the Constitutional State
“The person exists as an end-in-him/herself and not merely as a means… On the other hand, the principle of the worldwide market economy is based on treating persons and their needs as means to the end of profit realization… The … Continue reading
Learning from Roosevelt and His “New Deal” by Stephan Schulmeister
to read “Learning from Roosevelt: His “New Deal” by the Austrian economic researcher Stephan Schulmeister, click on http://la.indymedia.org/news/2014/07/264745.php In the first phase Roosevelt concentrated in three areas: firstly, the social-psychological side of depression, combating despondency and despair, secondly, the strict … Continue reading
Austerity Policy as a Momentous Mistake
The IMF’s austerity policy of the last years was misguided. That austerity policy led to intensified growth declines and increasing unemployment and did not reach its goal of permanently calming the financial markets. Public investments could raise economic growth both … Continue reading
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A Post-Keynesian theory of economic policy – filling a void
A Post-Keynesian theory of economic policy – filling a void” by Arne Heise, professor of economics at Hamburg University, 13 pp, March 2008 Arne Heise is a professor of economics at the University of Hamburg. To read “A Post-Keynesian theory … Continue reading