Economie

In Underwater, James B. Lockhart, a former submarine officer with the US Navy who went on to play a large part in the government’s response to the Global Financial Crisis, tells an important sto …

The notion of ‘clickbait’ speaks to the intersection of money, technology, and desire, suggesting a cunning ruse to profit from unsavoury inclinations of one kind or another. Clickbait capitalism pur …

Economics and the Left presents interviews with 24 leading progressive economists, whose life work has been dedicated to both interpreting the world and changing it for the better. They all deploy th …

The European question has divided the Labour Party and the progressive left for over 50 years. The contemporary left-wing antithesis to the EU harks back to Bennite anti-marketeer narratives: a neoli …

Why is democracy so broken and how might it be fixed? In The Master’s Tools, award-winning author Michael A. Mc Carthy argues the answer can be found in the flows of credit and investment bound up wi …

Mississippi is the poorest state in the US, with the highest percentage of Black people and a history of vicious racial terror. Black resistance at a time of global health, economic, and climate cris …

On March 9, 1776, An inquiry into the nature and causes of national wealth – often referred to simply as National Wealth – was published for the first time. Smith, a Scottish, philosopher of ethics t …

For much of American history, large numbers of people claimed that money was a public good and asserted the right to shape money creation practices. If popular knowledge about money creation was once …

Richard E. Wagner has spent more than five decades in academia, holding professorship and leadership positions at the University of California Irvine, Tulane University, Virginia Polytechnic Institut …

Recession is a significant, pervasive & persistent decline in economic activity. Recessions are generally times of economic hardship, when companies cut staff and prices on the stock market fall and …