Mike Norman Economics

Professor Bill Mitchell – a major proponent of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) – will attend a Labour Conference fringe event this September, it’s a rare opportunity progressives must seize.… Through the mass misinformation that is the neoliberal doctrine, the elites created a set of economic rules which presents them and only them as the indispensable saviours of society, and thus the only entity that must directly benefit from economic policy. They then dressed this fantasy as common sense,...

It has never been more important to knowledge the history of fascism and neofacism in America. David Montadel is assistant professor of international history at the London School of Economics and Political Science. America is currently experiencing a wave of increasingly aggressive far-right and neo-fascist activism. Observers have routinely considered fascism an ideology alien to American society. Yet it has deeper roots in American history than most of us have been willing to...

Trump’s embattled strategist phones me, unbidden, to opine on China, Korea, and his enemies in the administration. Great article.The American ProspectSteve Bannon, Unrepentant Robert KuttnerIt gets better. Bannon thought this was off the record.Raw Story‘Leaker’ Bannon ‘never intended’ for free-wheeling interview to be on record: report Elizabeth Preza

Indigenous communities in Brazil have scored a major victory, as the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in their favor in a conflict over the Xingu Indigenous Park, in the state of Mato Grosso, and the Indigenous reserves of Nambikwara and Parecis. teleSURtv.netBrazil's Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous ClaimteleSUR / md-IB-cl

This is interesting post. It reflects a key strain of thought at the time of the craziness over Vietnam that led to the countercultural revolution, communalism, the underground economy, etc. Most people that grew up after that period are unaware of the profound shift that took place in American culture from mid-Sixties (seeded by the Beat Generation of the late Fifties) to the mid-Seventies. The transition was complete by the late Seventies and America set off on another generational round...

The Alt Right is not going to be happy with Steve Bannon calling the white nationalist protesters clowns and losers. He is correct that Democrats have a tendency to overplay their hand in using identity politics, but they smell blood here. The good thing is that America is finally having to deal with its demons.The HillBannon: I want Democrats to talk about racism every day John Bowden Meanwhile, Barack Obama hit a homer with this tweet. The GuardianObama's anti-racism tweet...

One way of looking at it.FortuneHow CEOs Decided Trump Is a Bad InvestmentRobert Strand | Executive Director of the Center for Responsible Business at the University of California-Berkeley Haas School of Business and Associate Professor at the Copenhagen Business School Centre for Corporate Social Responsibility

A majority of Americans are dissatisfied with President Donald Trump’s response to the violence that erupted last Saturday in Charlottesville, Virginia, according to a new poll conducted by the PBS NewsHour, NPR and Marist Poll.... PBSNew poll: Majority of Americans unhappy with Trump’s response to Charlottesville Laura Santhanam

VoxAn astonishing change in how Americans think about government-run health careSarah Kliff