- 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
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
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
China’s 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan by Fred Schmid
China’s 6.9% Growth: The Superiority of the Plan by Fred Schmid, 1/28/2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/05/08/18809039.php China has brought hundreds of millions out of poverty thanks to the opening of the economy. In 1978, 90% of the 800 million Chinese lived below the … Continue reading
Happy Cinco de Mayo and Happy 200th birthday of Karl Marx!
Bonhoeffer and Kierkegaard offer indispensable perspectives on history and human possibility. Bonhoeffer said the ultimate is the goal of the penultimate and that the language of proclamation enters crossway to the language of time. We are living in late-stage capitalism … Continue reading
The end of the Trump era approaches with every day!
The end of the Trump era approaches with every day! The Trump era is an era when there are no debates, arguments, and hearings on the tax bill, when special interests run riot and private jet owners get tax cuts … Continue reading
5 Questions on Tax Justice by Elisabeth Massute, Oxfam
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/21/18807581.phpto read Elisabeth Massute’s 2017 article, click on https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/21/18807581.php Tax justice must be created and tax avoidance stopped to fight inequality and poverty. Apple paid 0.0005% tax on its profits in Ireland – merely 50 euros on a million euros. … Continue reading
Taxes and human rights by the Tax Justice Network
Taxes and human rights by the Tax Justice Network, 2013 http://www.l4bb.org/reports/taxes_human_rights.pdf Home 1. The state should represent the public interest and yet has become the “errand boy of the banks” (Bill Moyers). 2. The social contract means protecting and strengthening … Continue reading
Housing is not just another commodity by Friedhelm Hengsbach
Housing is not just another commodity by Friedhelm Hengsbach, 2014 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/06/18807182.php Like food, clothing, health, and education, housing is an elementary need. One’s apartment is a place of retreat of the private person, a protective- and creative space of inviolable … Continue reading
Living Together Differently! by Frank Adloff
Living Together Differently! by Frank Adloff, Feb 2018 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/01/18807069.php Modern politics must fight against excessiveness and inequality. All progress narratives have worn out. The cake will not become larger. The perspective of conviviality aims at abundance, not at tightening belts. … Continue reading
State investments and the Public Sector
State Investments and the Public Sector by Patrick Schreiner and Kai Eicker-Wolf https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/02/20/18806850.php The public infrastructure is something positive. It is a kind of advance concession, increases the entrepreneurial production potential and lowers the production costs. If state investments are … Continue reading