- 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: July 2018
Surveying Utopia: Raul Zelik and Elmar Altvater (2012)
https://www.raulzelik.net/english-texts/369-surveying-utopia https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/03/18704055.php Raul Zelik and Elmar Altvater discuss the nature of utopia, economics, how growth and work became fetishes, how what is rational in micro-economics can become irrational in macro-economics, time prosperity, how the financial crisis shows the self-destructiveness of … Continue reading
The Trump Spectacle by Albert Scharenberg
The Trump Spectacle by Albert Scharenberg, January 2018 www.rosalux-nyc.org http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/the-trump-spectacle/ Robert Zaretsky recently commented in The New York Times that Donald Trump’s presidency marks the coming of age of The Society of the Spectacle—a society in which truth is essentially … Continue reading
Capital as Climate Killer
Capital as Climate Killer by Tomasz Konicz, June 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/24/18816555.php The growth pressure of the world economy makes a resource-sparing social order only possible beyond capital. The seeming rationality of capitalist goods production serves an irrational end-in-itself – the multiplication … Continue reading
Mapping the Resistance, May 2018, 28 pp
Mapping the Resistance by Ethan Young, May 2018, 28 pp http://www.rosalux-nyc.org/wp-content/files_mf/young_mappingtheresistance_eng51.pdf The 2016 election and one year in office for Donald Trump have resulted in an intensifying polarization in mainstream US politics. A many -sided attack is underway on democracy … Continue reading
The System Question as a Survival Question
The System Question as a Survival Question by Tomasz Konicz, April 21, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/18/18816517.php A fundamental social alternative to the permanent capitalist chaos is sought. A rational social discourse on system alternatives would be an antidote to populism and to … Continue reading
Social Policy as Social Infrastructure
Social Policy as Social Infrastructure by Joachim Hirsch, 2003 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/12/18816437.php Work and income must be uncoupled. In Germany, thanks to higher productivity and info-technology, 30% more was produced from 1970-2010 with 30% fewer workers. The state should represent the public … Continue reading
The (Temporary) End of Globalization
The (Temporary) End of Globalization by Fabian Fritzsche, June 28, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/09/18816394.php Protectionist measures could lead to losses of prosperity and increase the pressure to introduce more measures. Before the 2008 crisis, world trade grew more than 6% per year … Continue reading
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Interview with Social Philosopher Friedhelm Hengsbach
Interview with Social Philosopher Friedhelm Hengsbach, 2014 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/05/18816326.php The financial markets have uncoupled from the real economy since the middle of the 1970s. Politicians listen and react to every sound from the financial sector. The state allows itself to be … Continue reading
Housing as Infrastructure
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/07/02/18816285.php Housing as a human right is sometimes superseded by the right of speculation. Low-Income Housing Tax Credits (a Federal program), non-profit or cooperative housing, and SROs (single residency occupancy) are three solutions to the housing crisis. Strategies like public … Continue reading
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Happy Canada Day! the 151st
Happy Canada Day! The US could learn so much from O Canada – a country without Wall Street and the Pentagon! US imports have exceeded exports 2 to 1 since 2000. Every year the US has imported $500-$600 billion more … Continue reading
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