- 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.
Category Archives: Reducing Inequality/ Redistribution
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
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
Against the Rent Madness and For a Nonprofit Orientation!
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/24/18817740.php Against the Rent Madness and For a Nonprofit Orientation! by Andre Holm, Tony Krebs, and Leo Mayer, September 21, 2018 The Alternative Housing Summit on Sept 21 inBerlin discussed alternatives to the market-based housing policy. Exploding rents and lack … Continue reading
New eBooks “Alternative Economics: Reversing Stagnation” edited by Marc Batko, Poverty Returns with Misguided Policy” by Franz Segbers and “Philosophical Reflections on the Economic Crisis: From Obscuristan to Absurdistan” by Marc Batko
NEW EBOOK “ALTERNATIVE ECONOMICS: REVERSING STAGNATION” EDITED BY MARC BATKO, ONLY $3.99, 216 PP Available from Barnes & Noble https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=bn Available from Scribd https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=scribd Available from Apple https://books2read.com/u/mBM6MA?store=apple Mainstream market-radical economic theory has led to exploding inequality, cynicism and resignation … Continue reading
Promote Public Housing! Arguments for a Housing Policy Alternative
Promote Public Housing! Arguments for a Housing Policy Alternative by Sebastian Gerhardt, July 6, 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/26/18817164.php A basic principle of the market economy is that the market only reacts to solvent demand, not to needs. If a need is not … Continue reading
Post-capitalist Perspectives
Post-capitalist Perspectives by Raul Zelik, 1/29/17 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/08/15/18816917.php Capitalism is winning to death. The exit from the overheated machine of capitalism represents an enormous challenge. We cannot avoid the question about common property in the search for social alternatives. Can greater … Continue reading
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
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