economics
Boris Kagarlitsky: Políticas económicas después de la muerte del neoliberalismo
Boris Kagarlitsky.
[In English at http://www.links.org.au/node/2593.]Por Boris Kagarlitsky, traducido del inglés para Rebelión por Germán Leyens
El sistema económico internacional que se perfiló después del colapso de la Unión Soviética todavía no está muerto, pero está moribundo. Lo vemos todos los días, no solo en informes sobre la crisis sino también en otras noticias de todo el mundo que cuentan la misma historia: el sistema no funciona.
La verdad es que el sistema nunca ha funcionado para los pobres y las clases trabajadoras. No se diseñó con ese propósito, no importa lo que nos digan todo el tiempo sus propagandistas y diversos intelectuales corruptos. El sistema funcionó para las elites: generó una tremenda redistribución de la riqueza y del poder a favor de los que ya eran ricos y poderosos. Aunque las elites no tienen suficiente coraje para admitirlo, hay que transformar el sistema.
David Harvey addresses #OccupyLSX: The best system money can buy
November 12, 2011 – Professor David Harvey addresses Occupy London Stock Exchange (#OccupyLSX)
Martin Hart-Landsberg: Yes, Virginia, there is a 1%
For more on the Occupy movement, click HERE.
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
October 24-November 7, 2011 -- Reports from the Economic Front, posted at Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal with permission -- The Occupy Wall Street movement has succeed in forcing the media to acknowledge the extent and seriousness of income inequality. In many ways wealth inequality is a bigger problem, since it is wealth that largely underpins income and power differences.
According to an Economic Policy Institute posting,
the richest 5 percent of households obtained roughly 82 percent of all the nation’s gains in wealth between 1983 and 2009. The bottom 60 per cent of households actually had less wealth in 2009 than in 1983, meaning they did not participate at all in the growth of wealth over this period.
It is worth dividing the top 5% into what has now become two familiar groups, the top 1% and the next 4%.
Boris Kagarlitsky: Economic policies after the death of neoliberalism
Boris Kagarlitsky.
By Boris Kagarlitsky
Introducing the Robin Hood tax
Notes from a talk at Occupy Wellington on October 29, 2011, to coincide with the #RobinHood global march
By Grant Brookes, Tax Justice Campaign (New Zealand)
The campaign for a Robin Hood tax began a little over 18 months ago with a little-noticed launch in London. Supporters from a handful of British charities, faith groups and trade unions projected images onto the Bank of England, in an effort to lobby the British government to introduce a new tax on banks to tackle poverty and climate change. Today, it has become a global movement.
It's easy to see why it has been taken up by large parts of the Occupy movement, which also began as a small gathering on Wall Street opposing US corporate greed and the role of the top 1% in dictating priorities in Washington. That too has now become a global awakening.
The euro on a knife edge: Are the Greeks to blame? What is the left position on the euro crisis?
On October 19 and 20, 2011, Greece will be stopped by the latest in a series of general strikes against austerity. Above and below: Workers march on October 19.
By Lee Sustar
Martin Hart-Landsberg: Troubling economic trends for US workers
By Martin Hart-Landsberg
John Bellamy Foster: The ecology of Marxian political economy
[This article is an extended version of a talk delivered at the Marxism 2011 Conference, University College of London, July 3, 2011.