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Η κοινή έκκληση για την ειρήνη σε Ελλάδα και Τουρκία, αποτελεί σημαντικό πολιτικό γεγονός για τις δύο χώρες. Πολιτικά κόμματα, οργανώσεις και κινήσεις, αλλά και συνδικάτα, κοινωνικές οργανώσεις, εργαζόμενοι συνδικαλιστές, αγωνιστές του περιβαλλοντικού κινήματος σε Τουρκία και Ελλάδα, εκφράζουν τη στήριξή τους Σε μια προσπάθεια στήριξης αυτής της διεθνιστικής πρωτοβουλίας και με φιλοδοξία να αναπτυχθεί  η συζήτηση αλλά και η δράση του λαϊκού κινήματος, συναντιούνται στο παρόν...

download whole issue Why are the rich getting richer while the poor stay poor?      2Andri W. Stahel Machina-economicus or homo-complexicus: Artificial intelligence and the future of economics?      18Gregory A. Daneke Maybe there never was a unipower      40John Benedetto Empirical rejection of mainstream economics’ core postulates – on prices, firms’ profits and markets structure      61Joaquim Vergés-Jaime Humanism or racism: pilot project Europe at the crossroads      76Hardy...

Unequal incomes are regularly justified by claiming that high incomes reflect a larger contribution to society. This has never been true as a general proposition. Some high incomes, like those of skilled surgeons, reflect a contribution well above the norm. Others, like those of entertainers and sports stars, reflect services that are highly valued by our society whether or not they make it a better place. Others on high incomes make only marginal contributions to society or...

NYU Prof. Steve Hutkins at Save the Post Office More big news: The judge in the New York v Trump case, Emmet G. Sullivan, has granted the plaintiffs’ motion for a preliminary injunction. His order is here. Much of Sullivan’s order focuses on the Postal Service’s failure to request an advisory opinion from the PRC before embarking changes that have nationwide impacts on postal services. Judge Sullivan observes that “Plaintiffs have shown that there is a...

from Asad Zaman This is a sequence of posts on “New Directions in Macroeconomics“, which discusses the numerous directions of research which must be incorporated to create a viable Macroeconomics for the 21st Century. We have previously discussed “Post-Keynesian Economics“, and “Modern Monetary Theory“. This post discusses the necessity of re-incorporating politics into economics. Once we recognize the importance of history and institutions, it becomes clear that economic problems cannot...

BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson today announced a plan to completely eliminate the provincial sales tax (currently 7%) for 1 year, and then cut it by 4 points (or 57%) after that. Conservatives are prone to make expensive tax cut promises during elections, a tendency which contradicts their other touch-stone of perpetually promising to get tough on deficits and debt. Like other governments, BC is already facing enormous deficits for years to come as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson today announced a plan to completely eliminate the provincial sales tax (currently 7%) for 1 year, and then cut it by 4 points (or 57%) after that. Conservatives are prone to make expensive tax cut promises during elections, a tendency which contradicts their other touch-stone of perpetually promising to get tough on deficits and debt. Like other governments, BC is already facing enormous deficits for years to come as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic...

from Norbert Häring The President of the EU-Commission plans to give all EU citizens a European digital identity which can “be used anywhere in Europe to do anything from paying taxes to renting a bike”. She wants to implement for Europe what ID2020, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank and Homeland Security are pushing worldwide – to perfect the automated surveillance of the world’s ppopulation. In Ursula von der Leyen’s speech on the State of the Union on September 16, an important...

Five planets visible in the sky at the moment. Mercury in the West just after sunset, Jupiter and Saturn near the moon, Venus and Mars in the morning. Earth is the one we really need. Share this:Like this:Like Loading...