Category Archives: Alternative Economics

Memorandum 2017: Alternatives for a Solidarity Europe: Instead of “Germany First”

Posted on June 5, 2017 by Marc

Memorandum 2017: Alternatives for a Solidarity Europe: Instead of “Germany First” http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/06/434822.shtml The European Union is at a crossroads. The reason lies in the neoliberal redistribution policy favoring capital incomes for many years. “Mass unemployment intensified and was not ended … Continue reading →

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E-Book “Alternative Economics” for only $3.99

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Marc

The 159-page e-Book “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” is yours for only $3.99 with the coupon code PU68W until June 4, 2017. Enjoy the feast! Celebrate your independence! https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/627516

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E-Book “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” only $3.99 until June 4

Posted on May 9, 2017 by Marc

https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/627516 coupon code PU68W This is a 159-page eBook with Austrian, Swiss, Polish and German critical economists. Mainstream trickle-down economics is helpless in reversing exploding inequality or precarious work. Enjoy the feast! Celebrate your independence! A Future-Friendly Economics is Possible … Continue reading →

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Competition Ideology and Power Reality by Heinz-J. Bontrup

Posted on May 1, 2017 by Marc

Competition Ideology and Power Reality by Heinz-J. Bontrup https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/05/01/18799000.php Competition cannot be an end-in-itself. Uncontrolled private power leads to misuse.Uncontrolled competition increasingly destroys itself through concentration and centralization processes and does not guarantee any optimal economic and social development. People … Continue reading →

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Private Enterprise Committed to Social Interests by Joachim Beerhorst

Posted on April 5, 2017 by Marc

Private Enterprise Committed to Social Interests interview with Joachim Beerhorst, March 2017 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/04/434546.shtml Social needs like energy- and water supply, the waste industry, education, senior pensions and health care are better solved publically than privately. While economic democracy is not … Continue reading →

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Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 11 min

Posted on March 12, 2017 by Marc

Video: “Forget Shorter Showers,” 2015, 11 min https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2TbrtCGbhQ

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Attempt the Impossible! Theses for a New Left Majority

Posted on February 15, 2017 by Marc

Attempt the Impossible! Theses for a New Left Majority by the Institute of the Solidarity Modern https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/15/18796513.php The Brexit vote and the American presidential election have dramatically accelerated the crises of classical neoliberal policy. The exit from neoliberalism can only … Continue reading →

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Rethinking Economic Policy! by Till van Treeck, Fabian Lindner and others

Posted on January 25, 2017 by Marc

Rethinking Economic Policy! by Till van Treeck, Fabian Lindner and others http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/01/434200.shtml The economic crisis calls for social-democratic answers. The fading mass purchasing power (in Germany) is due to the increasing inequality of income and wealth. Deregulation promotes social problems … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year Post-Materialists!

Posted on January 16, 2017 by Marc

On BookTV, Jean Twenge, author of “The Narcissism Epidemic,” warns that the cult of specialiness was thought to be the ladder to corporate success and turned out to be anti-social. https://www.c-span.org/video/?286496-1/narcissism-epidemic Possessions can possess us more than we possess them. … Continue reading →

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The Civilization Crisis: Post-Factual Criticism of Politics by Rudolf Hickel

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Marc

The Civilization Crisis: Post-Factual Criticism of Politics by Rudolf Hickel http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2017/01/434088.shtml In Trumponomics, falling tax rates for businesses should increase tax revenues. When businesses do not invest, the tax gifts lead to lower state spending and higher state debts at … Continue reading →

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