Wednesday, October 3, 2018

The Italian Debt/GDP ratio hysteria

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The prospect of an Italian budget deficit of 2.4% of GDP has unleashed extraordinarily strong adverse comment by EU officials and polit...
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Saturday, May 5, 2018

Happy 200th Birthday, Karl Marx!

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Most Marxists and anti-Marxists alike probably fail to realise that the highest praise for capitalism is to be found in Marx and Eng...
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Monday, April 16, 2018

Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism?

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Current assessments of where modern capitalism is going vary greatly, probably more today than ever before. In the previous post we consi...
Thursday, March 22, 2018

“Beyond Capitalism?” No, Back To The Future

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“I wish we would stop using the word Capitalism”, writes John Kay of Oxford University, in a recent post entitled  Moving Beyond “Capitali...
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Sunday, March 4, 2018

Be Careful What You Wish For

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Note : An Italian translation of this post (not revised by the author) has been published by vocidallestero.it  , I am grateful to them ...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2018

“A flat tax is for a flat Earth”

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This was my answer to Grzegorz Kolodko, Poland’s Minister of Finance and First Deputy Premier for the Economy (1994-97 and 2002-03), when...
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Thursday, February 22, 2018

Piketty: “Why have democratic regimes failed to reduce inequality?”

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This is the question asked by Thomas Piketty in a recent presentation on “Brahmin Left vs Merchant Right: Rising Inequality and the Chan...
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