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Rosa Luxemburg was one of the great theorists of the workers’ movement in the twentieth century. Her political life began in the 1880s, when she was an organiser for the Polish Proletariat Party – before her activities in support of strikes forced her to flee the country in 1889. In exile in Zurich, Luxemburg studied […]
On Sunday, May 4th, 1890, a demonstration was held in Hyde Park, the like of which had never been seen. It was a demonstration in favour of the Eight Hours’ Working-Day, and by far the larger part of the hundreds of thousands of demonstrators were and are in favour of obtaining the Eight Hours’ Working-Day […]
Thoughts about full employment Ellis Winningham The commentary below has been extracted from a Facebook posting by Ellis Winningham which appeared on 19 March 2023.…
The post Thoughts about full employment first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Degrowth: how much is needed? Ted Trainer Recent authors in The Conversation, Pearls and Irritations and ERA Review have stated the need for fundamental change…
The post Degrowth: how much is needed? first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.How has Costa Rica managed to restore its natural wonders, while big, rich nations fail? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 21st April 2023 One of the world’s greatest environmental heroes doesn’t even have a Wikipedia page. Though he has done more to protect the living planet than almost anyone alive, his name is […]
In a bonus episode for supporting subscribers, The Lever interviews the author of a bestselling biography of WWE Chairman Vince McMahon.
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In 1990 Michael Ignatieff, writing about Easter in the Observer, remarked that “secular societies have never succeeded in providing alternatives to religious rituals.” He pointed out that the French Revolution “may have turned subjects into citizens, may have put liberté, égalité and fraternité on the lintel of every school and put the monasteries to the sack, but apart from the Fourteenth […]
In my previous post “It’s not a Deficit, it’s a Fiat” (which, like this post, is open access on Patreon and Substack), I showed that the so-called “Deficit” is actually government creation of “Fiat” money. If you haven’t read that post yet, read it now and come back to this one later. In that post, … Continue reading "It’s not a debt, it’s a gift"
Degrowth: how much is needed? Ted Trainer Recent authors in The Conversation, Pearls and Irritations and ERA Review have stated the need for fundamental change…
The post Degrowth: how much is needed? first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.A Green New Deal must not be tied to economic growth Giorgos Kallis We must not reproduce the ideology of capitalist growth, which created the…
The post A Green New Deal must not be tied to economic growth first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.An update from Sustainable Prosperity Action Group Gabrielle Bond and Steven Hail Like it or not, economics has become the language of power. You cannot…
The post An update from Sustainable Prosperity Action Group first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.A Green New Deal must not be tied to economic growth Giorgos Kallis We must not reproduce the ideology of capitalist growth, which created the…
The post A Green New Deal must not be tied to economic growth first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.The dead parrot of mainstream economics Steve Keen For those that are too young to remember, the legendary English comedy show Monty Python had a…
The post The dead parrot of mainstream economics first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.Is it rational to be a sociopath? Asad Zaman Microeconomics textbooks present the infamous “homo economicus” as an ideal of rational behaviour. Those who study…
The post Is it rational to be a sociopath? first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.An update from Sustainable Prosperity Action Group Gabrielle Bond and Steven Hail Like it or not, economics has become the language of power. You cannot…
The post An update from Sustainable Prosperity Action Group first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.
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Unstoppable Latin American activists made green the color of abortion rights – now, the U.S. needs the "green wave" more than ever.
The nature of capitalism Jason Hickel People often assume that capitalism is defined by “markets and trade”. But markets and trade existed for thousands of…
The post The nature of capitalism first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.The dead parrot of mainstream economics Steve Keen For those that are too young to remember, the legendary English comedy show Monty Python had a…
The post The dead parrot of mainstream economics first appeared on Economic Reform Australia.