Category: Economy
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The Forest and the Tree: Ben and Jerry’s, Unilever, and Global Capitalist Apartheid
After years of pressure from activists, Ben & Jerry’s on 19 July announced that it would end ice cream sales in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory.” The Vermont-based ice-cream maker stated … Keep reading »
Life After the Pandemic /w Christoph Hermann
From Production for Profit to Provision for Need. Part of the Socialist Register series “Beyond Digital Capitalism.” Watch video »
Understanding Development in a Global Value Chain World: Comparative Advantage or Monopoly Capital Theory?
The recent period of globalization – following the collapse of the Eastern bloc and the integration of China into the world economy – is in essence the period of global … Keep reading »
SR 2021: Interpretation Machines /w Larry Lohmann
Since the nineteenth century, left movements have sought footholds among the ever-renewing contradictions of capitalist industrial mechanization and its relation to work and energy. These experiments, begun by Marx, remain … Watch video »
From Neoliberalism to the New Finance Capital
As the global economy entered another historic crisis in March 2020, the US Federal Reserve implemented a massive support program to stabilize financial markets. In doing so, it expanded upon … Keep reading »
Is Inflation a Threat?
Many conservative economists and policy-makers, not least the C. D. Howe Institute and its corporate allies, are sounding the alarm about potential inflation in the opinion pages of the Globe … Keep reading »
Post-Capitalist Futures? Work After Automation
Widespread social concern about potentially negative consequences of technological automation for workers is nothing new. Since the era of early industrialism, commentators and economists have mused about the potentially damaging … Keep reading »
“Middle Class” As Deflection
Saving the middle class has become fashionable again. With alarming regularity, opinion pieces in the country’s leading newspapers, magazines, and online media call for the reorienting of Canadian state policy … Keep reading »
GameStop and Share Markets: Between the Bad and the Ugly, There is No Good
The recent GameStop story coming out of the US pushed arcane financial dealings into a prominence they rarely enjoy. The public was introduced to weird concepts such as “short selling … Keep reading »
The Ontario Budget: Hard Times Ahead
To ease future cuts, the government established a budgeting system this year which would see much of the COVID-related funding budgeted under special funds distinct from the normal ministries. So … Keep reading »
Ontario 2020 Budget
“We are here at a critical time; not just for Ontario but for the whole country. And during this difficult time, my government’s top priority is the health and well-being … Keep reading »
Pension Fund Capitalism and the Campaign to “Make Revera Public”
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed some of the damage wreaked by neoliberalism to a harsh new light. The erosion of workers’ rights to basic safety and livable wages, the particular … Watch video »