Mike Norman Economics

If Jeremy Corbyn’s party were not so averse to capitalism, this would be a great opportunity for Labour 40 leading economists recently put out a letter backing Labour. David Graeber says the best economists now advise Labour - which I doubt will get out wrong about markets.Will Hutton says Labour is far too adverse to capitalism, and I have tended to distrust it too, but it has to be enbraced because it is effective and is about freedom. Will Huton is right about the mixed economy - we...

The power of the rightwing press has corroded public debate. But we can do more than just complain about it Corbyn has been misrepresented, as well as being falsely accused of being antisemitic. The vile media campaign against Corbyn has been disgraceful - all dirty tricks and outright lies - and so now Johnson leads in the polls, who doesn't have the British people's interest at heart, only that of the elite.Our media is not for for purpose. In February 2016, a few months before the...

Retired Army officer and West Point instructor Maj. Danny Sjursen joins Rick Sanchez to discuss his experiences in war and how they turned him into a vocal critic of endless war, which he calls a "Constitutional crisis." We also weighs in on the "neo-McCarthyism" that has defamed presidential candidate Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii). [embedded content]

Winston Mok describes why the US can't catch up.  Like the US, China’s economic dynamism rests on the imbalance between the runaway successes of its coastal provinces and the laggards along its northern rust belt. The crucial difference? Beijing redistributes the fruits of economic successSCMPWinston Mok - China’s economic miracle has a secret ingredient hiding in plain sight: unbalanced growth

India believes that the RCEP trade deal doesn't provide adequate protection against possible surges of imported goods. In particular, India is concerned about cheap Chinese goods flooding the domestic market.  The Indian ExpressExplained: Why India has said no to regional trade pact RCEP

RealClearInvestigationsThe Brennan Dossier: All About a Prime Mover of Russiagate Aaron MatéMcKinseyThe Asian Century has arrived Oliver Tonby, senior partner in McKinsey’s Singapore office, interviews Parag Khanna, founder and managing partner of FutureMap and author of the recent book The Future Is Asian, and James Crabtree, associate professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, as well as a senior fellow at the school’s Centre on Asia and...

It was fixed. Were the strikes justified? An inspector from the eight-member team sent to Douma has just come forward with disturbing allegations about the international watchdog, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which was tasked with obtaining and examining evidence. Involved in collecting samples as well as drafting the OPCW’s interim report, he claims his evidence was suppressed and a new report was written by senior managers with assertions that...

JA Smith, author of Other People's Politics, argues that the death of neoliberalism is already underway, and suggests that the social-democratic turn is the best way forward for the working class and for oppressed people everywhere. [embedded content]

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One economic system dominates the world. But there’s more than one kind of capitalism. Excerpt from Branko Milanović forthcoming book. EvonomicsCapitalism(s), Alone Branko Milanovic | Visiting Presidential Professor at City University of New York Graduate Center and senior scholar at the Stone Center on Socio-economic Inequality, senior scholar at the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS), and formerly lead economist in the World Bank's research department and senior associate at Carnegie...