From Promoting Economic Pluralism
First there were slaves, then there were coal-fired machines, then there was climate change wreaking havoc on the descendants of the slaves. Jeremy Williams goes around a vicious circle. Friday …
Coal, climate and the circle of injustice Read More
Covid-19 exposes the deadly dominance of neoclassical economics in Africa. Howard Stein. On 24 February 2021 Ghana received a vaccine shipment (600,000 doses), the first to sub-Saharan Africa under the …
The pathology of economics Read More
Post pandemic, which issues need to be added and reincorporated into the development economics curriculum? Kevin Deane asks. There is a strong argument that Covid is not an external shock …
Colonial economics Read More
Self-styled comedian and economist, Susie Steed, tells how her guided walk around the City turned into a tour of the British Empire. I never set out to run a tour …
Follow the money Read MoreThe Mint: Good morning John. It’s great you’ve made some time to talk to us. I’m very grateful. Thanks. John Perkins: Well, it’s great to be with you, Henry. Thanks …
Interview: John Perkins – Mystically Speaking – Transcript Read More
John Perkins was a self-confessed economic hit man. He had his damascene conversion in the rainforests of the Amazon in conversation with shamans. As a result he has written extensively …
Mystically speaking Read More
It’s hard to believe but it was only in 2015 that, according to the Treasury, British taxpayers finished ‘paying off’ the debt which the British government incurred in order to compensate British …
Britain’s Slave Owner Compensation Loan, reparations and tax havenry Read More
From the publisher: Capitalism is in a profound state of crisis. Beyond the mere dispassionate cruelty of ‘ordinary’ structural violence, it appears today as a global system bent on reckless …
Revenge Capitalism Read More
Susie Steed used to teach economics to undergraduates, but she can’t bear to any longer. She tells why. I’ve been trying to describe to people why I’m no longer teaching …
The silence about violence Read More
Capitalism has brought us full circle to a place that looks a lot like where we stood just before the crash in 2007. Sameer Dossani says the way forward is …
Where the truth lies Read More