Fred Block
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To Reform Capitalism, Look to Marx
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200 years after Marx’s birth, many elites have taken unabashed pride in capitalism, a term that originally had negative connotations. To make our economy more just, we must reclaim Marx’s understanding of capitalism’s contradictions.
Learning from Karl Polanyi
The old political-economic thinking of Karl Polanyi was never properly absorbed into “mainstream” North Atlantic economics: recognizing that land, labor, and finance are not really “commodities” returns institutions and social processes to the center of economic analysis.
You Didn’t Build That: The Entrepreneurial State
A review of The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, the new book by Mariana Mazzucato
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We Can—And Must—Reform Capitalism
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Fred Block says capitalism is not an unchanging monolith—which means we can make it better
The Tenacity of the Free Market Ideology
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Fred Block discusses his book, “The Power of Market Fundamentalism”.