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  • | Economics and the law of the hammer | MR Online

    Economics and the law of the hammer

    Originally published: Real-World Economics Review Blog on August 2, 2022 by Lars Syll (more by Real-World Economics Review Blog) (Posted Aug 09, 2022)

    As yours truly has reported repeatedly during the last couple of years, university students all over the world are increasingly beginning to question if the kind of economics they are taught–mainstream economics–really is of any value. Some have even started to question if economics is a science.

  • | Jobsanger CEOs Get Huge Raises While Workers Suffer | MR Online

    Inflation, wages, and profits

    Originally published: Real-World Economics Review Blog on June 7, 2022 (more by Real-World Economics Review Blog)

    Inflation continues to run hot—and now, finally, the debate about inflation is heating up.

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    Where has all the surplus gone?

    Originally published: Real-World Economics Review Blog on November 15, 2017 (more by Real-World Economics Review Blog)

    Thanks to the release of the so-called Paradise Papers, and the additional research conducted by Gabriel Zucman, Thomas Tørsløv, and Ludvig Wier, we know that a large share of the surplus captured by corporations is artificially shifted to tax havens all over the world.

  • | Economy rains down Rose Parade photo capoliticalreviewcom | MR Online

    Promises, promises

    Originally published: Real-World Economics Review Blog on October 6, 2017 by David Ruccio (more by Real-World Economics Review Blog)

    They keep promising, ever since the recovery from the Great Recession started more than eight years ago, that workers’ wages will finally begin to increase. But they’re not.

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    Maja Solar | Graffiti in Mexico City 2011 It reads No Mas Feminicidios No more murder of women | MR Online

    The gendered forms of violence in capitalist-patriarchal societies are, obviously, related to what is habitually recognized as violence against women.

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  • End of Cold War Illusions
    Harry Magdoff | F 16N Fighting Falcon | MR Online

    In this reprint of the February 1994 “Notes from the Editors,” former MR editors Harry Magdoff and Paul M. Sweezy ask: “The United States could not have won a more decisive victory in the Cold War. Why, then, does it continue to act as though the Cold War is still on?”

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