When the Great Depression followed the 1929 stock-market crash, almost everyone acknowledged that capitalism was unstable, unreliable, and prone to stagnation. In the decades that … Stagnant CapitalismRead more
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A Tale of Three Cities
A house is a simple enough thing. But it is also a commodity, which means it abounds ‘in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties’, as Marx … A Tale of Three CitiesRead more
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How Neoliberalism Is Normalising Hostility
The hostile environment is not just about the Windrush generation in the UK, or the harassment of migrants at the Mexican border in the USA, … How Neoliberalism Is Normalising HostilityRead more
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Questioning the Logic of Capital
Vaios Triantafyllou: Picking up where we left off in our previous conversation, I would like to discuss the interplay between central planning or economic organization … Questioning the Logic of CapitalRead more
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One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countries
The world is pulsing with hundreds of millions of people desperate to flee their homes under the weight of the crisis of world capitalism. According … One sixth of world’s people want to flee their home countriesRead more
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Value and its Monetary Expression
David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 3: Value and its Monetary Expression
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How Capitalism Has Screwed Women Over
It’s been one year since the explosion of the Me Too movement that followed allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Since then, the #metoo hashtag has been … How Capitalism Has Screwed Women OverRead more
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Advanced capitalism, advanced inequality
Leo Panitch The British Newspaper, The Guardian, launched a new project, co-funded by the Ford Foundation on global economic inequality. The data compares inequality levels … Advanced capitalism, advanced inequalityRead more