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    Further thoughts on the economics of imperialism

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on April 23, 2024 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    Since the end of WW2, the imperialist bloc (IC) annually got around 1% of their GDP through the transfer of surplus value in international trade from the rest of the major ‘developing’ economies (DC) in the G20; while the latter lost about 1% of their GDP in surplus value transferred to the imperialist bloc. And these ratios were rising.

  •  | The Macron government has forced by decree a reform that raises the pension age to 64 years from 62 years | MR Online

    What’s the problem with pensions?

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on March 31, 2023 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    The recent massive demonstrations against the Macron administration in France forcing through so-called pension reforms reveals the determined attempts of pro-capitalist governments in all the major economies to cut real wages when we are old and can no longer work.

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    Energy, cost of living and recession

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    The G7 governments have a problem.

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    The invasion of capital

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on August 13, 2022 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn of foreign debt.

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    Europe: caught in a trap

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on July 24, 2022 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    The major economies are moving closer to recession, if they are not already there; and yet inflation rates continue to rise (for now). 

  •  | US workers quit | MR Online

    The future of work 1 – remote working

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on June 7, 2022 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    A few weeks ago, the world’s richest man Elon Musk, Tesla CEO, told his employees that they must return to the office or get out of the company.  Musk wrote in an email that everybody at Tesla must spend at least 40 hours a week in the office.

  •  | Wheat | MR Online

    Food, famine and war

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on June 3, 2022 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made rather than due to vagaries of nature and the weather, it is the current food crisis that is putting millions globally close to starvation.

  •  | Wealth 1 | MR Online

    The wealth of nations

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on February 23, 2022 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    Marx’s first sentence in Capital Volume One is: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as an “immense accumulation of commodities”, its unit being a single commodity.” (Moore and Aveling translation).

  •  | Share of population living at below $5 a day | MR Online

    Views on China

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on November 28, 2021 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    What is the experience and future for China and its Communist party rule?  It seems appropriate to consider a number of new books on China that have been published that try to answer this question.

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    The sixth report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) runs to nearly 4,000 pages. The IPCC has tried to summarise its report as the ‘final opportunity’ to avoid climate catastrophe.

  •  | Barmen in 1913 | MR Online

    Engels on nature and humanity

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on April 2, 2020 (more by Michael Roberts Blog)

    In the light of the current pandemic, here is a rough excerpt from my upcoming short book on Engels’ contribution to Marxian political economy on the 200th anniversary of his birth.

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    The climate and the fat tail risk

    Originally published: Michael Roberts Blog on Febraury 11, 2020 (more by Michael Roberts Blog) (Posted Feb 16, 2020)

    My gap year ends in August, but it doesn’t take a college degree in economics to realise that our remaining 1,5° carbon budget and ongoing fossil fuel subsidies and investments don’t add up.

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    1. Introduction The predominance of US economic, political and military power in the world was established at the end of the Second World War.1 With just 6.3 percent of global population, the United States held about 50 percent of the world wealth in 1948. As the only power which had used nuclear weapons on civilian […]

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