Category: Economy
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The U.S.-Turkey Stand-off in Context
The U.S. and the Weaponization of Global Finance Turkey was thrust into a full-blown currency crisis when U.S. President Donald Trump hoisted tariffs on Turkey’s steel and aluminium exports to the … Keep reading »
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The Long March to Post-Capitalist Transition: Pan-Africanist Perspectives
The centenary of the October 1917 Russian Revolution, a world-shaking historic event, was an occasion for celebration throughout the world. Many diverse interpretations are advanced as to its success in … Keep reading »
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From Socialist Finance to Peripheral Financialization: The Yugoslav Experience
Socialist countries have always had banks: central banks, savings banks taking local deposits, commercial banks, and export banks. Che Guevara was even the director of the National Bank of Cuba. … Watch video »
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The Canadian Pension Plan: The Deadly Hand of the Market
A recent article in the Toronto Star and its accompanying photo bear comment. The reaching hands are not of rioting, starving people grasping for food but of stockbrokers on the … Keep reading »
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On Consumerism, Capitalism, and Ecosocialism
Sebastian Livingston provides an introduction to an ecosocialist approach to production and consumption and looking at some issues that are problematic in achieving an ecological society. Keep reading »
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Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism
Kevin Skerrett and Chris Roberts discuss the significance of their edited book, The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism. Heather Whiteside and Janice Folk-Dawson speak to the issues the book raises for the trade union and working class movements today. Recorded in Toronto, 29 March 2018. Watch video »
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Bringing Back The Lucas Plan
“We got to do something now, the company are not going to do anything and we got to protect ourselves,” proclaimed a shop steward at Lucas Aerospace when filmed by … Keep reading »
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NAFTA is a Bill of Rights for Capital
Dr. Richard Roman, co-author of Continental Crucible: Big Business, Workers and Unions in the Transformation of North America discusses how NAFTA deepened and ‘constitutionalized’ neoliberal reforms already underway. Watch video »
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A New Strategy for Higher Education
In the British Labour Party’s 2017 election manifesto, the pledges to abolish university tuition fees and reintroduce maintenance grants were widely seen as vote winners, but that was the extent … Keep reading »
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Amazon Is a 21st-Century Digital Chain Gang
When Amazon announced plans to locate a $5-billion, 50,000-employee complex as its second headquarters somewhere in North America, state governments and municipalities fell over themselves offering billions of dollars in tax abatements and corporate subsidies to secure the prize. Keep reading »
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The Time of Finance
The global financial crisis has done next to nothing to change the convictions of mainstream economists. But the widespread lament over their willful blindness seems misplaced: there was never a realistic possibility that the economics profession would voluntarily break with the methodological sophistication and statistical formalism at the heart of its identity. Keep reading »
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States and Markets: The Making of Globalization
Session 5 of the Transcending Pessimism, Reimagining Democracy conference: States and Markets: The Making of Globalization. Presentations by Dick Bryan, Ana Garcia, Sean Starrs and Pat Armstrong. Recorded in Toronto, 7 October 2017. Watch video »