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Tag Archives: Classical Economics
For Economic Truth Turn To Michael Hudson
By Paul Craig Roberts Source: PaulCraigRoberts.org Readers ask me how they can learn economics, what books to read, what university economics departments to trust. I receive so many requests that it is impossible to reply individually. Here is my answer. … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, elites, Environment, Financial Crisis, Labor, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Work
Tagged austerity, capitalism, Classical Economics, Debt, Economic Rent, Economics, elites, environment, External Costs, financial crisis, Financialization, J Is for Junk Economics, Michael Hudson, Natural Resources, Neoliberalism, privatization, Supply-side Economics, Taxes, unemployment
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Putting an End to the Rent Economy
By Michael Hudson and Vlado Plaga Source: Unz Review Interview with Vlado Plaga in the German magazine FAIRCONOMY, September 2017. Originally, you didn’t want to become an economist. How did it come that you changed your plans and digged so … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Philosophy, Recession, Social Control, society
Tagged Banks, Banksters, Classical Economics, Compound Interest, Debt, economic crisis, Economics, Finance, Finance Capital, Financialization, Housing Bubble, Insurance, John Brown, Michael Flürscheim, Michael Hudson, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, Real Estate, Savings and Loan Crisis, Subprime Crisis, wall street
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A Skeleton Key to the Alt Left
Source: the HipCrime Vocab Last time we looked at the differences between the “Left” as manifested in the mainstream political discourse and those of a number of authors, blogger and thinkers that I’ve (somewhat arbitrarily) lumped under the umbrella of … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, Financial Crisis, History, Labor, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Science, society, Sociology, Technology, Work
Tagged Alt-Left, Alt-Right, capitalism, Classical Economics, Collapse, Communism, Corporate Globalization, economic crisis, Economics, environment, Eurocentric Modernism, Eurocentrism, Karl Polanyi, Modernism, Neoliberalism, Progress, Rajani Kanth
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The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy
By Michael Hudson and Chris Hedges Source: CounterPunch CHRIS HEDGES: We’re going to be discussing a great Ponzi scheme that not only defines not only the U.S. but the global economy, how we got there and where we’re going. And with me … Continue reading
Posted in Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Corporate Welfare, Corruption, culture, Economics, Empire, Financial Crisis, History, Recession, Social Control, society, war
Tagged 1%, 99%, Adam Smith, Chris Hedges, Classical Economics, Debt, Financial Parasites, GDP, Goldman Sachs, Gross National Product, Junk Economics, Marx, Michael Hudson, military-industrial complex, Neofeudalism, Oligarchy, Plutocracy, wall street, war
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