- 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: June 2018
Amazon, the Elephant in the Bookshop
Amazon, the Elephant in the Bookshop by Attac Germany and the Alternative Economic Policy study group in Bremen, Germany, 2018 and 2010 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/26/18816019.php Amazon is one of many examples of a gigantic problem. International corporations shirk from contributing their just … Continue reading
More Public Investments are Sensible and Necessary
More Public Investments are Sensible and Necessary by Philipp Heimberger, September 2016 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/22/18815874.php The state often takes risks when private parties are timid. Low-interest rates create possibilities for expansive budgetary policy. Public investment in the infrastructure and education could benefit … Continue reading
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The Beam in the White House and Fatal Triumph
The Beam in the White House and Fatal Triumph by Horst Schaefer and George Rammer, June 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/19/18815787.php Iran is the “greatest supporter of terror,” declared president Donald Trump. With that, he justified his peace-endangering cancellation of the nuclear agreement … Continue reading
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Alternative Federal Budget (Canada), 156 pp
Alternative Federal Budget – Feb 2018, 156 pp from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives https://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publications/National%20Office/2018/02/Alternative_Federal_Budget2018.pdf For more than two decades, the Alternative Federal Budget has provided a blueprint for sustainable and equitable growth in Canada. When successive federal governments … Continue reading
Authoritarian Capitalism and Digital Demagogue
Authoritarian Capitalism and Digital Demagogue by Christian Fuchs https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/15/18815689.php Trump is not an individual phenomenon but one of many structural manifestations of the sudden change of neoliberalism into authoritarian capitalism. The media’s profit-mongering intensifies the visibility of rightwing ideology. Enlightenment … Continue reading
Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism – A Symbiotic Pair
Neoliberalism and Authoritarianism – A Symbiotic Pair by Sebastian Dittrich, grin.com https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/10/18815568.php Rightwing populist parties mix the conventional rightwing authoritarian political style with neoliberal economic ideas emphasizing the free unregulated market and the sleek but strong state. For Hayek, a … Continue reading
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Neoliberalism or New Freedom for Corporations
Neoliberalism or New Freedom for Corporations by Elrich Spangenberger, 2010 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/06/18815519.php “The interests of merchants always differ from public interests. As a rule, they are interested in deceiving and misusing the general public” (Adam Smith). Keynes established that the market … Continue reading
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Trade War and Zero Deficit Myth
Trade War and Zero Deficit Myth by Stephan Krull and Beigewum Austria https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/06/01/18815373.php State debts are often necessary and are not automatically bad economically. Investments are prerequisites of future prosperity. When private parties spend too little, the state must step … Continue reading