Posts Tagged: economics

Economics is irredeemably sexist

Opinion

8.03.2024

One reason women avoid the field of economics is the male chauvinist pig standing at its centre, masquerading as the model of rationality. No ...

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Yanis Varoufakis on Bloomberg: What to do about economic inequality

23.10.2020

Yanis Varoufakis on "That's Debatable" with Robert Reich, Lawrence H. Summers, and Allison Schrager to discuss: Is it time to redistribute wealth?

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Accounting for ethics: the ‘ill’ logic of neoliberalism 

Opinion

6.10.2020

The failure of 'developed’ capitalist economies to safeguard citizens' wellbeing during a public health crisis reveals a need for moral accounting.

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Something remarkable just happened this August: How the pandemic has sped up the passage to postcapitalism

25.08.2020

In the post-2008 world, speculators don’t actually give a damn about the economy. COVID-19 found capitalism in this zombified state.

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DiEM25 TV goes local! May 1-11 Program

29.04.2020

Member and local-group led DiEMTV programming, coming your way in many European languages — À la prochaine! Ci vediamo! Hasta pronto!

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James Galbraith's memoir of lifelong struggles to make economics a force for good

6.01.2020

Mainstream economics has always functioned as the mathematised ideology of financialised capitalism. The few economists who fought from within ...

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Should liberal capitalism be saved?

19.11.2019

As philosopher Slavoj Žižek once said, it is a remarkable sign of our times that even the brightest minds would rather fathom the end of the ...

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