Wednesday , May 22 2024
Home / Real-World Economics Review / Can capitalists afford economic growth? An animation

Can capitalists afford economic growth? An animation

Summary:
From Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan Despite the global dominance of capitalism, growth rates continue to trend downward. Mainstream economists blame the slowdown on various ‘distortions’, but as this animation by Elvire Thouvenot shows, the reality is quite different. Capitalists seek not more income per se, but greater power-through-redistribution, which they achieve by strategically stymying growth. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTpanudMToA

Topics:
Editor considers the following as important:

This could be interesting, too:

Lars Pålsson Syll writes DSGE models — a total waste of time

tom writes Gaza in context: past, present, & future

Peter Radford writes Lost opportunities?

Bill Haskell writes Very Ill Again

from Shimshon Bichler and Jonathan Nitzan

Despite the global dominance of capitalism, growth rates continue to trend downward. Mainstream economists blame the slowdown on various ‘distortions’, but as this animation by Elvire Thouvenot shows, the reality is quite different. Capitalists seek not more income per se, but greater power-through-redistribution, which they achieve by strategically stymying growth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTpanudMToA

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *