Mike Norman Economics

Maureen Donnelly said she was forced to hand in her resignation to her Amazon bosses in October last year after just one month of employment. 'I soon learned that only difference between an Amazon warehouse and a third-world sweatshop were the robots...they were treated better' she told the Post. On Monday, more than 100 protestors rallied in front of the building where she briefly worked, demonstrating against harsh working conditions.  When Donnelly first secured her job at...

By Anthony Funnell After more than four decades of dominance, free-market capitalism is facing a challenge. Its rival, the rather blandly named Modern Monetary Theory, promises to return economic planning to a less ideological footing. It’s also keen to strike a blow against the “surplus fetish” that many economists now blame for declining public services and growing inequality. Modern Monetary Theory and its challenge to Neoliberalism

Political theorist Wendy Brown’s latest book, In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West, traces the intellectual roots of neoliberalism and reveals how an anti-democratic project unleashed monsters – from plutocrats to neo-fascists – that its mid-20thcentury visionaries failed to anticipate. She joins the Institute for New Economic Thinking to discuss how the flawed blueprint for markets and the less-discussed focus on morality gave rise to threats to...

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“The backers of Johnson’s leadership campaign were dominated by Hedge funds. To what extent is he swayed by their interests?” [embedded content]

In November, Chinese researchers announced that the Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) reactor — an “artificial sun” designed to mimic the nuclear fusion process the real Sun uses to generate energy — had hit a milestone by achieving an electron temperature of 100 million degrees Celsius. Now, officials are saying they believe they’ll wrap up construction on a new artificial sun this year, and they claim this device will be able to hit a milestone in ion temperature —...

If Labour get into power.... ?THE POUND WILL CRASH! ?THE BANKERS WILL FLEE! But is this true? Michael Walker went to the City of London to see if bankers are really scared of Corbyn. [embedded content]

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FastCompany [Will become?]Antitrust warrior Matt Stoller warns that if we don’t take on Big Tech, ‘we’ll become a fascist society’ Marcus Baram JacobinA Socialist Plan to Fix the Internet Ben Tarnoff  WhoWhatWhyGoogle to Employees: Want a Union? Search Elsewhere Ted Rall Gold Goats 'n Guns [Turning point?]Macron Tells NATO Russia Must Come in from the Cold War Tom Luongo Intel Today ["Poppy" was the only CIA Director to become POTUS, Putin was just a KGB agent] Remembering CIA...

Wow, I never thought I would start to like Macron. I hope the CIA and MI6 haven't got other plans - maybe the French protestors will get a new president after all. French president says alliance created to provide collective security against Soviet Union should shift focus to terrorism Macron earlier alarmed European allies by declaring he wants improved relations with Vladimir Putin French President Emmanuel Macron urged Nato leaders to review the alliance’s strategy when they meet...