Keynsianism
James Galbraith on tariffs, Europe and China
Interview to Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
What are the aims of Trump’s “tariff storm” and his other policies? What results will they yield? What will happen to...
Trump’s tariff threats could destabilize the global economy
Trump's protectionist policies threaten to radically unbalance the balance of payments and exchange rates throughout the world, preventing countries from earning the dollars needed...
America Abandoned Its Economic Prophet. The World Embraced Him | By...
John Kenneth Galbraith was an intellectual celebrity 50 years ago—and it would be a mistake to ignore him today
January 15, 2021
U.S. President-elect Joe...
Four types of labor and the epidemic | by Branko Milanovic
March 21, 2020
I wrote in a recently published article in Foreign Affairs that the attention of policy makers and indeed of the public...
Coronavirus crisis: now is the hour of Modern Monetary Theory
by Peter Bofinger
on 23rd March 2020
The measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic not only comprise a unique experiment in health policy. They have...
From the Greek revolt to the Battle of England: hopes and...
By Dimitris Konstantakopoulos
In a previous article we discussed some of the most critical geopolitical consequences of the outcome of the 12 December British election. In this paper...
Macroeconomics in Germany: The forgotten lesson of Hjalmar Schacht
Despite facing many of the same challenges, Germany’s current macroeconomic policy is substantially different to those of other countries, in part due to the...
A Gap in Marx’s Work or the Ignorance of the Reader?
The metabolic exchange between nature and society in a mode of production based upon value
By Elmar Altvater *
July 20, 2017
So many accusations have been...
Lenin and Keynes
HISTORICAL EXPERIMENTS
Two dissimilar men with different goals can still have a lot in common, writes Prabhat Patnaik
At first sight no two persons could have...
E. Germain (Mandel) The Marxist Theory of Imperialism and its Critics
(August 1955)
From Two Essays on Imperialism, New York 1966.
Note by D.D.P.: In reality Ernest Germain and Ernest Mandel are one person. Germain is one...