The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
The Not So Erratic Philosophy of Yanis Varoufakis EXTRACT Greece’s new finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has been mandated by the leftist Syriza government to negotiate new conditions with the “troika” (the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund) for the continuation of Greece’s desperately needed bailout. He has just written a …
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Rojava – the formation of an economic alternative: Private property in the service of all EXTRACT Inspired by the model of democratic confederalism and democratic autonomy, democratic assemblies, women’s council and other democratic organisations have been established. Every ethnic and religious group must be represented in these councils, and the leadership of each evenly divided …
Joseph Stiglitz and Paul Krugman for the past 15 years have been notable for the accuracy and insight of the comments they make about our economy. When you think about Representative Paul Ryan on the right, and Stiglitz and Krugman on the social progressive side you realize that there is no real comparison to be …
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CALL FOR PAPERS (due by 31 January 2015): Conference on Growth, Cycles, and Sustainability, Association for Heterodox Economics The conference theme concerns growth. How to create it, sustain it and can we avoid the ups and downs of it. Is it good anyway given our environmental challenges, and if growth actually happens will it be …
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A fine reference. Oxfam (2014). Working for the Few: Political capture and economic inequality (Briefing Paper, 32 pages). Phi Beta Iota: The elite is starting to fracture — inclusive and redemptive capitalism are code for “stop the pitchforks.” What the broad elite does not get yet is that infinite wealth can be created if they …
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The “Cancer Stage of Capitalism”: The Ten-Point Global Paradigm Revolution Breaking Out of the Invisible Prison Professoor John McCurtry, Global Research, 2 January 2015 Headings only:
The Economics of Happiness conference Portland, Oregon February 27 – March 1, 2015 See Confirmed Speakers and Other Details
