Posts Tagged: economics
Economics is irredeemably sexist
Opinion8.03.2024
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
Opinion6.10.2020
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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