Subjects Archives: Political Economy

Vice President Kamala Harris promises to build three million affordable houses if elected president.

CROOKED companies dishonestly presenting their products as safe. Corporate incompetents engaged in a merry-go-round of buck-passing.

ON Independence Day–August 15th–we generally take stock of the path we have travelled since 1947. Today, I will take a different tack and focus on how or why a handful of European countries end up controlling major parts of the world.

CounterSpin interview with Steve Macek on dark money.

The ‘degrowth’ debate raises critical issues to which only a Marxist approach can provide answers, argues the Marx Memorial Library.

The Argentine president’s reformist agenda seeks to eliminate environmental, social and human rights protection standards in order to attract foreign investment.Booming demand for lithium plays a key role in Milei’s new policy.

The Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and the State Council have unveiled a set of guidelines to ramp up green transition in all areas of economic and social development.

Venezuelanalysis member Ricardo Vaz discusses the “big picture” of imperialist attacks against Venezuela and international solidarity.

An excerpt from Bryan D. Palmer’s new book, to be published October 1 by Lorimer.

Right until 2021 Bangladesh was considered a success story of export-led growth within a neoliberal setting.

In the 1960s, a new ideology held that cities were best developed organically and free from central planning. In his latest book, Owen Hatherley explores how these ideas shaped New York—and what they can teach a new generation of socialists.

The CIA promoted the work of George Orwell, pushing his books, and even funded the 1954 film adaptation of “Animal Farm.” Thus, the author, who is most closely synonymous with propaganda and government control over society, in an ironic twist, owed his massive popularity in no small part to a giant decades-long CIA propaganda campaign.

The six justices who voted to criminalize the homeless have a combined net worth of $54 million. 

Big oil and gas company Chevron is deeply entwined with the Israeli state.

The French economist J B Say had believed that there could never be a problem of aggregate demand in any economy, that whatever was produced was ipso facto demanded.

Gus Speth – “My family and I spent 25 years in Washington DC. They were good years, and every morning I began with coffee and The Washington Post. The newspaper was a wonderful companion—and reliably progressive. But there is something going on there now on the editorial board that I find, well, weird.”

Global capital through the international finance system has obtained near hegemony and capitalism is projected as the best and most superior system in history.

We speak with Sandeep Vaheesan, legal director at the Open Markets Institute, about his forthcoming book, Democracy in Power: A History of Electrification in the United States (University of Chicago Press, 2024). Democracy in Power is a highly detailed work of political and institutional history that recounts the struggle over electric power generation in the United States.

The stock market crashed on August 5, in a new “Black Monday”. What caused it? Is the USA on the verge of a new financial crisis? Ben Norton is joined by economist Michael Hudson to discuss the extreme volatility.

Workers in the Global South—from farm workers to scientists—power the world economy but face a yawning wage gap.