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  • Sri Lanka faces crippling debt repayments of more than $31 billion in this decade, unless these are reduced by write-offs or restructuring (GoodIdeas/shutterstock.com)

    How not to deal with a debt crisis

    Originally published: Social Europe on January 16, 2023 (more by Social Europe)

    Jayati Ghosh warns against historically disastrous approaches to the sovereign-debt crisis hitting low- and middle-income countries.

  • Not everyone smiling—Amazon workers at Vélizy-Villacoublay in France (Frederic Legrand—COMEO / shutterstock.com)

    Amazon and the power of big digital platforms

    Originally published: Social Europe on January 17, 2022 by DARIO GUARASCIO, ANDREA COVERI, CLAUDIO COZZA (more by Social Europe) (Posted Jan 28, 2022)

    Platform power is often traced to markets, implying anti-trust action. The source, and the solution, lie elsewhere.

  • The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy

    The feminist building-blocks of a just, sustainable economy

    Originally published: Social Europe on November 15, 2021 (more by Social Europe)

    Jayati Ghosh finds in a UN Women report a blueprint for an economy which serves the public—rather than the other way around.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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