- 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: October 2018
Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism Forum, Oct 24, 18, 8 hours
Destroying the Myths of Market Fundamentalism, 8 hrs, Oct 2018, therealnews.org https://youtu.be/WjWETN1E6YA?t=1056 Market Fundamentalism is the dogmatic belief that unregulated, “laissez-faire” markets are the only answer to the world’s biggest social and economic problems. It’s time to confront the myths … Continue reading
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Right-wing Populism. Can More Madness Cure the Madness?
Right-wing Populism. Can More Madness Cure the Madness? by f.s. montanus, Georg Rammer, Andreas Bohm and Joachi9m Bischoff http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2018/10/436770.shtml Neolikberal policy was always mad. But an even greater madness now appears with right-wing populism. Politics is mad because it writes … Continue reading
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“We Live in a Time of Radical Counter-Enlightenment” by Rainer Mausfeld
Rainer Mausfeld is a professor psychology at the University of Kiel. https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/21/18818378.php In the past decades, democracy was undermined in an unparalleled way. Democracy was replaced by the illusion of democracy, free public debate by the management of opinion and … Continue reading
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Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan and Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz Segbers
Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan by Marc Batko, 54 pp, $2.99 on Kindle Direct from Amazon. Enjoy the feast! Celebrate your independence! Please order the eBooks! https://www.amazon.com/Philosophical-Reflections-Economic-Crisis-Obscuristan-ebook/dp/B0764KFS2P/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1538923510&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=philosophical+refelctions+on+the+economic+crisis and Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy by Franz … Continue reading
The Criminality of the Elites
The Criminality of the Elites by Fabio De Masi and Laura Wiesboeck, September 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/03/18817977.php The offenses of the upper classes are hardly publicized. The little are hung while the big can run. People wait in vain for strong interventions … Continue reading
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Affordable Rents? A State of Emergency Intensifies
Affordable Rents? A State of Emergency Intensifies by Werner Rugemer and others, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/10/01/18817927.php Rents explode in cities after massive sales of public housing to brutal investors. Affordable housing is in short supply. Something must change fast. In 1987, there … Continue reading