The Economic Case for Socialism

"It" is neoliberalism.Michael Hudson: "Well, you’ve just made the point that neoliberalism wants to make itself invisible. It’s like the devil. If there a devil, the devil wants to say he doesn’t exist. Neoliberalism says inequality doesn’t exist, exploitation doesn’t exist, and everything is quite fair."Michael HudsonIs It Over Yet?Radhika Desai and Michael Hudson

Special IssueHow can we construct an economics consistent with the biophysical limits to economic growth?The whole issue looks interesting. Real World Economics Review #106Demographics, the economy and the environment: An MMT approachRandall Wray and Yeva Nersisyan

Climate Change: Threat to Civilization

Historiska vingslag i Lund (personal) Idag när jag hjälpte vår yngsta dotter att efter nio år i Malmö flytta tillbaka till Lund fann jag till min förvåning att huset hon skulle flytta in i på Stora Magle Kyrkogata var gamla Historiska Institutionen. Huset som jag besökte ett otal gånger i mitten på 70-talet när jag läste tre betyg i historia har tydligen blivit omgjort till bostadshus. Jag har bara trevliga minnen därifrån — inte minst uppskattade lärare...

Evey day, I get an array of emails in my In-Box offering up articles or what they think can be interesting reads. Some are hawking subscriptions too. I like to subscribe to news letters and magazines. The problem being, I never get a chance to finish them all. Law Why the Supreme Court rejected a case about LGBTQ+ conversion therapy bans, slate.com, Dahlia Lithwick and Joseph Stern. SCOTUS refused to take up Tingley v. Ferguson, a First...

December 17, 2023, Letters from an American, Prof. Heather Cox Richardson It seems that former president Donald Trump is aligning his supporters with a global far-right movement to destroy democracy.  On Saturday, in Durham, New Hampshire, Trump echoed Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s attacks on immigrants, saying they are “poisoning the blood of our country”—although two of his three wives were immigrants—and quoted Russian president Vladimir...

The greatest of them all .[embedded content] This live performance remains unequalled to this day. As Luciano Pavarotti once said: “Don´t compare me with Jussi Björling. I`m only human.”

[unable to retrieve full-text content]RADHIKA DESAI: Hello and welcome to the 20th Geopolitical Economy Hour, the show that examines the fast-changing political and geopolitical economy of our time. I’m Radhika Desai. MICHAEL HUDSON: And I’m Michael Hudson. RADHIKA DESAI: Well, it’s happening again. Reports of the death of neoliberalism are once again proliferating. Just take a look at the Continue Reading The post Is It Over Yet? first appeared on Michael Hudson.

Because of this, humanity is doomed.