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Read More »Decoding China’s “Dual Circulation” Strategy — Yu Yongding
Since May, when China's central leadership started referring to a "new development pattern," there has been much speculation about whether the country is embracing an entirely new economic model. In fact, the government is merely describing changes that have already happened. Yu Yongding is considered an authority on Chinese policy that is worth listening to.Project SyndicateDecoding China’s “Dual Circulation” Strategy Yu Yongding, a former president of the China Society of World Economics...
Read More »Charlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation: On Working and Being in Modern Times — Steven Stoll
Interesting if you remember the film, Modern Times.Public SeminarCharlie Chaplin and Karl Marx in Conversation: On Working and Being in Modern TimesSteven Stoll | Professor of history at Fordham University and author of Ramp Hollow: The Ordeal of Appalachia
Read More »Bill Mitchell – Tracing the roots of progressive views on the duty to work – Part 6
This is Part 6 of my on-going examination of the concept of ‘duty to work’ and how it was associated with the related idea of a ‘right to work’. Neoliberalism has broken the nexus between the ‘right to work’ responsibilities that the state assumed in the social democratic period and the ‘duty to work’ responsibilities that are imposed on workers in return for income support. That break abandons the binding reciprocity that enriched our societies and has spawned a solid argument for a basic...
Read More »Weiner Brodsky Kidder, PC — 2nd Circuit Holds Loan from Federal Reserve Bank Covered by False Claims Act
Appeals Court decision on legal status of Federal Reserve with respect to government and the private sector. Weiner Brodsky Kidder, PC 2nd Circuit Holds Loan from Federal Reserve Bank Covered by False Claims Act h/t Rohan Grey | Assistant Professor of Law, Willamette UniversityHere is Rohan's comments on Twitter. Not new but I just pick it up and thought to pass it on.Rohan Grey @rohangrey Level 1: 1. A tweet thread on a recent court case of relevance to monetary theorists: U.S. v...
Read More »Michael Roberts — Ending the pandemic slump – a return to Keynes?
The latest Trade and Development report by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), the economic research agency to help ‘developing countries’, is a must read. Not only is it packed with data and statistics about trends and developments in global production, trade and investment, but this 2020 issue takes a very radical position on how to get the world economy out of what the IMF calls the ‘lockdown’ slump. From the Marxian perspective, the problem is falling...
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Strong day in the market and, another example of my coaching people to success. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/ Download my podcasts! New one every week. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1105286 Mike Norman Twitter https://twitter.com/mikenorman
Read More »Dow up 400.
Strong day in the market and, another example of my coaching people to success. Trade and invest using the concepts of MMT. Get a 30-day free trial to MMT Trader. https://www.pitbulleconomics.com/mmt-trader/?s2-ssl=yes/ Download my podcasts! New one every week. https://www.buzzsprout.com/1105286 Mike Norman Twitter https://twitter.com/mikenorman
Read More »Marxian economics for the 21st century? — David F. Ruccio
In this post, I continue the draft of sections of my forthcoming book, “Marxian Economics: An Introduction.” This, like the previous four posts (here, here, here, and here), is written to serve as the basis for chapter 1, Marxian Economics Today. The text of this post should pretty much finish up the draft of the first chapter.... Occasional Links & Commentary Marxian economics for the 21st century?David F. Ruccio | Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Notre Dame.
Read More »Adopting a clean gold standard — JP Koning
Not a monetary gold standard, but green way of treating gold. Russia and China would never go for it, since they are principal gold miners and gold reserves are way to avoid being the victim of Western economic warfare led by the US.MoneynessAdopting a clean gold standardJP Koning
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