152 Results for “CIGI Canada”
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Partnership
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
Since 2011, the Institute has partnered with the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) to change the way the field approaches the interplay between economics and governance, accelerating the development of new economic thinking.
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Sovereign Debtors in Distress: Are Our Institutions Up to the Challenge?
Feb 24, 2012
In Europe and the United States, political and economic breakdowns have become untenable.
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CIGI Celebrates 20 Years of Research and Expert Analysis
Jul 30, 2021
In 2021, the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) celebrates 20 years of contributing research and expert analysis to global policy making.
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How to Tackle the Challenge of Sovereign Debt
Mar 7, 2012
The G20 must address the problem of sovereign debt.
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Webinars and Events
Digital Transformation: Pre and Post Covid-19
Webinarwith Jim Balsillie
Aug 20, 2020
The rise of the Knowledge Based Economy and subsequent Data Driven Economy has created a new world in which the basis of wealth and power is derived from control of these intangible assets, alongside creating a new kind of social and political space in which both our public and private spheres are technologically reshaped. The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated these transformations that permeate our world and has amplified their effects.
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INET and CIGI Award Spring 2011 Grants
Jul 11, 2011
INET and CIGI Award Spring 2011 Grants: The grants offer a diversity of approaches and global perspectives that target critical issues that have been neglected by conventional economic analysis.
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Students in Bretton Woods: The Next Generation of Economic Thinking
Apr 8, 2011
It’s day two of INET’s Conference in Bretton Woods and a new energy has filled the halls and sessions with the arrival of nearly thirty student attendees.
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Paul Blustein
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Thomas Bernes
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Brett House
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Paul Jenkins
Distinguished Fellow, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) -
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James Balsillie
Co-Founder Founder, Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) -
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Rohinton Medhora
Governing Board President, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) -
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Domenico Lombardi
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Pierre Siklos
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INET and CIGI are Now Accepting Research Proposals for the Fall 2011 Grant Program
Aug 1, 2011
The Institute for New Economic Thinking and The Centre for International Governance Innovation are calling for new research proposals in areas of vital importance to the field of economics for the Fall 2011 grants cycle.
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Webinars and Events
Human After All
PlenaryApr 10–12, 2014
The Institute for New Economic Thinking joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) in holding its fifth Annual Conference from April 10 to April 12, 2014 in Toronto.
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Commission on Global Economic Transformation Announcement
Nov 6, 2017
Several founding CGET members announce the ambitious project and respond to questions from the press.
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Webinars and Events
Paradigm Lost
PlenaryNew Economic Thinking 2012
Apr 12–15, 2012
The Institute joined the Centre for International Governance Innovation, and the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change in hosting its third-annual plenary conference in Berlin from April 12-15, 2012.
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INET in Berlin: The Annual Plenary Conference to Take Place on April 12-14, 2012
Jan 11, 2012
The Institute for New Economic Thinking will host its third annual plenary conference in Berlin fromApril 12 to 14, 2012.
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Webinars and Events
Global Commission on Economics Transformation at the CEPS Ideas Lab
ConferenceThe pandemic and the economic crisis: A global agenda for urgent action
May 31, 2021
By Stefano Sannino Secretary-General, European External Action Service (EEAS), Jutta Urpilainen EU Commissioner for International Partnerships, European Commission, Rohinton P. Medhora President, The Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), Andrew Michael Spence Nobel Laureate of Economics, Co-Chair, Commission on Global Economic Transformation, Jayati Ghosh Professor of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Andrea Renda (moderator) Senior Research Fellow, Head of GRID Unit, CEPS
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Webinars and Events
Transformation économique et développement durable en Afrique
ConferenceInterroger les modèles de développement
Hosted by Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Jan 30, 2020
An event for INET’s Commission on Global Economic Transformation
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesVoting Rights, Deindustrialization, and Republican Ascendancy in the South
Sep 2020
How NAFTA led to GOP dominance of the American South
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Working Paper SeriesInclusive American Economic History: Containing Slaves, Freedmen, Jim Crow Laws, and the Great Migration
Jan 2020
This paper records the path by which African Americans were transformed from enslaved persons in the American economy to partial participants in the progress of the economy.
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Nobel Laureates to Co-Chair Independent Commission on Global Economy
Oct 22, 2017
Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Spence and a global team of leading thinkers are calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Working Paper
Working paperThe Labor Market Consequences of Electricity Adoption: Concrete Evidence from the Great Depression
Feb 2015
When the adoption of a new labor‐saving technology increases labor productivity, it is an open question whether the economy adjusts in the medium‐term by decreasing employment or increasing output. This paper studies the effects of cheaper electricity on the labor market during the Great Depression.
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UK Election: A Tale Of Two Nations
May 11, 2015
Yes, it is a tale of two nations, but in a much broader way than you think. Not just England and Scotland, but an equally salient parallel between Great Britain and Canada.
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Herr Schauble’s Foibles: The Eurozone Rebalancing Conundrum
Apr 10, 2015
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Top incomes and the glass ceiling
Jul 17, 2014
The glass ceiling is typically examined in terms of the distribution of earnings. This column discusses the glass ceiling in the gender distribution of total incomes, including self-employment and capital income. Evidence from Canada and the UK shows we are still far from equality. Though the proportion of women in the top 1% has been rising, the progress is slower, almost non-existent, at the very top of the distribution.
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John Knubley
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Paul Martin
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Kartik Anand
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Blair Feltmate
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Polanyi on Polanyi
Feb 26, 2020
In this series Polanyi reflects on an extraordinary life, and the extraordinary legacy of her family.
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Identifying Weaknesses in the Eurozone
Dec 19, 2014
How should the Eurozone handle unemployment and other immediate hurdles?
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Working Paper SeriesAn Economic Defense of Multiple Antitrust Goals: Reversing Income Inequality and Promoting Political Democracy
Mar 2022
The Consumer Welfare Standard of antitrust is outdated and defective
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Working Paper SeriesAmerican Gothic: How Chicago Economics Distorts “Consumer Welfare” in Antitrust
Jul 2019
The Chicago School has long used bankrupt assumptions to strangle antitrust policy.
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Working Paper SeriesAntitrust and Economic History: The Historic Failure of the Chicago School of Antitrust
May 2019
This paper presents an historical analysis of the antitrust laws.
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Working PaperNever Together: Black and White People in the Postwar Economic Era
Jul 2020
Over and over again, US government policies designed to transfer and create wealth and economic opportunity were restricted to whites by design.
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Working Paper SeriesFinance in Economic Growth: Eating the Family Cow
Jan 2019
The American economy changed rapidly in the last half-century. The National Income and Product Accounts (NIPA) were designed before these changes started. They have stretched to accommodate new and growing service activities, but they are still organized for an industrial economy.
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Cybersecurity Expert: What the Media Miss on America’s Election Risks
Oct 23, 2020
David Mussington, a leading expert on cybersecurity, reveals what’s worrying him, from Facebook to foreign interference.
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Research Program
Commission on Global Economic Transformation
Chaired by Nobel laureates Joseph Stiglitz and Michael Spence, INET has assembled a global team of leaders and scholars calling for new thinking & new rules for the world economy
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Working Paper
Working Paper SeriesThe Knife Edge Election of 2020: American Politics Between Washington, Kabul, and Weimar
Nov 2021
Covid and BLM protests were key to Biden’s victory
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Working Paper SeriesHow Much Can the U.S. Congress Resist Political Money? A Quantitative Assessment
Apr 2020
The links between campaign contributions from the financial sector and switches to a pro-bank vote were direct and substantial
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Working Paper SeriesThe Cyclically Adjusted Budget: History and Exegesis of a Fateful Estimate
Oct 2015
This paper traces the evolution of the concept of the cyclically adjusted budget from the 1930s to the present.
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Kari Polanyi Levitt
Feb 26, 2020
Some Personal Reflections on a Half Century of Friendship and Appreciation
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Working Paper SeriesLabor in the Twenty-First Century: The Top 0.1% and the Disappearing Middle-Class
Jan 2015
The ongoing explosion of the incomes of the richest households and the erosion of middle-class employment opportunities for most of the rest have become integrally related in the now-normal operation of the U.S. economy.
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Podcasts
Seth Klein: How WWII Preparation Sets an Example for Confronting Climate Change
Dec 23, 2020
Public policy researcher and writer Seth Klein discusses his new book, A Good War: Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency, which looks at the example that the mobilization for World War II sets in terms of mobilizing society and resources for coping with an emergency.
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Pope Francis Joins Joe Stiglitz and Rob Johnson in Creating New Economic Thinking
May 13, 2019
INET Global Commission to collaborate with Pope Francis and Scholas Occurrentes on bringing the voices of young people into the economics profession
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What Are the Moral Limits of Markets?
Apr 10, 2014
In recent decades, market values have crowded out non- market norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?
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Working paperEquality Denied: Tech and African Americans
Feb 2022
EEO-1 employment data document the vast over-representation of Asian Americans and vast under-representation of African Americans at tech companies in recent years. How did this happen?
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Heading for a Crash? The Future of the Automobile Industry
Dec 9, 2020
How electric and self-driving cars could change the industry
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Automotive Value Chains in a Brave New World
Jan 11, 2022
The pandemic and electrification are shaking the foundations of the auto industry
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Edward Kane: Hidden Subsidies for Too Big to Fail Banks
Aug 24, 2017
An examination of some little-known ways nation states and central banks prop up megabanks
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Podcasts
China vs. West: New World Disorder
Apr 21, 2022
The Toronto Star journalist Joanna Chiu discusses her book, China Unbound: A New World Disorder, which argues that we need to go beyond the typical over-simplifications of democratic West versus autocratic China if we hope to engage China in a way that seriously addresses issues such as human rights, climate change, and economic development.
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Restoring Public Good — Now and for the Future
May 5, 2021
Restoring faith in governance and public action is itself a public good that would prepare us for a whole myriad of challenges on the horizon
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Rohinton Medhora
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A New Tool For Teaching Pluralist Economics
Dec 20, 2016
Students in Europe have created an important resource for those seeking alternative curricular materials
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What You Can Do to Protect Yourself Against a Totally Unnecessary U.S. Government Default
Oct 14, 2013
If Congress and the White House fail to raise the debt ceiling this week and the United States defaults on its debt, what can we expect and how can we protect ourselves against these events?
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Economic Questions (Blog): Special Call for Articles
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Keeping the Oil in the Soil
Jul 22, 2019
The central goal of any serious climate policy is to keep fossil fuels in the ground. The central question is how.
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The Chartbook of Economic Inequality
Mar 18, 2014
We are not “all in it together.”
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Grexit: The Staggering Cost Of Central Bank Dependence
Jul 5, 2015
The ECB has decided to maintain its current level of emergency liquidity to Greece (ECB 2015). By refusing to extend additional emergency liquidity, the ECB has decided that Greece must leave the Eurozone. This may be a legal necessity or a political judgement call, or both. Anyway, it raises a host of unpleasant questions about the treatment of a member country and about the independence of the central bank.
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The IMF unlocks billions in aid, but from whom?
Feb 2, 2016
On 25 September 2015, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an ambitious policy agenda that aims to eradicate poverty, in all its forms and dimensions, by 2030.
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History of Economics on the Making
Jun 1, 2015
New topics and approaches make their way into two recent conferences on the history of economics
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Naomi Klein & Avi Lews
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Channeling Charles Kindleberger on Brexit
Jul 5, 2016
The economic historian would have seen the British vote to leave the European Union as part of a larger drama of centralization versus pluralism
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Debt-driven Growth: The decade prior to the Great Recession
Jul 22, 2015
The recent financial crisis has impressively illustrated the dangers of rapid credit growth in a painful way.
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Paper: Regional and Continental Integration in Africa in the Covid-19 Era: New Drivers and Perspectives
Jan 20, 2022
A review of regional integration in Africa
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Piketty's World Inequality Review: A Critical Analysis
Jan 2, 2019
Thomas Piketty and his colleagues have insisted that tax records are better for measuring inequality than income surveys. They’re wrong.
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Three Economic Surprises to Watch for in 2017
Feb 2, 2017
Institute Governing Board member Anatole Kaletsky argues that the Trump Administration’s policies will boost inflation and spur interest-hikes as well as a stronger dollar more rapidly than many expect, but that the European Union’s economy is on the mend
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2012: A Year in Review
Dec 21, 2012
INET researchers have continued their innovative work and are finding larger platforms and eager audiences for it.
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Podcasts
Water: The New Gold
Sep 7, 2021
The COVID pandemic highlighted the deepening water crisis. “Do we understand that over half the population of the world doesn’t have a place to wash their hands with soap and warm water?” says water warrior Maude Barlow.
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Ending the Wild West of Sovereign Debt Restructuring
Jul 23, 2018
Clear rules and sound principles for debt restructuring would level the playing field between developing countries and creditors
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Inequality – It’s Bad…And It’s About to Get Way Worse
Sep 12, 2013
What’s behind rapidly worsening inequality in the United States?
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Britain’s EU scorecard, a dissent on China stimulus, and the productivity puzzle
Jun 7, 2016
What we’re reading: A weekly scan of published items relevant to the Institute’s work
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Sraffa’s Revolution in Economic Theory
Dec 26, 2016
The prominence of the debate over ‘reswitching’ has obscured the importance of Piero Sraffa’s profound contribution to economics. It’s time to revisit and build on that body of work
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How to Deal with a “Bretton Woods Moment”
Feb 10, 2022
A new global economic system has to be based on a key principle of Bretton Woods: multilateralism
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How NAFTA Lost Democrats the South
Sep 15, 2020
For thirty years after the Civil Rights Act, a sizable share of white Southerners still voted Democrat. That changed when the party embraced trade deals that hurt American workers.
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Why Digital Currency Won’t Save Us
Aug 13, 2018
State-issued digital money may avoid some pitfalls of cryptocurrency, but it’s no financial panacea
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The Deficit Debate
Oct 5, 2010
Will public deficit reduction encourage private sector growth, or undermine a needed stimulus to recovery & lead to Japan-style stagnation?
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Nanjala Nyabola: COVID-19 and Africa: Techno-solutions won’t save us from the problems we face
Sep 21, 2021
In this interview, Dr. Folashadé Soulé and Dr. Camilla Toulmin discuss with Nanjala Nyabola, a writer and researcher based in Nairobi, Kenya. Nanjala’s work focuses on the intersection between technology, media, and society. She is currently the Director of Advox, the digital rights programme at Global Voices. Nanjala has held numerous research associate positions including with the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), the Oxford Internet Institute (OII), and other institutions, while also working as a research lead for several projects on human rights broadly and digital rights specifically around the world.
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Podcasts
Innovation in the Service of Society
Nov 18, 2021
Dan Breznitz, author of the book Innovation in Real Places, Strategies for Prosperity in an Unforgiving World, and professor of public policy at the University of Toronto, talks about how innovation ought to be guided if it is to be successful in addressing our most pressing problems.
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We're in a Moment of Collective Trauma. But There Are Glimmers of Hope
Jun 2, 2020
A special note from INET board member john a. powell
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Webinars and Events
The Paralysis From Above: COP26 and Beyond for the Developing World
WebinarDec 1, 2021
For several weeks, representatives of governments across the globe gathered in Glasgow to discuss plans for climate mitigation and adaptation. But the meetings were dominated by representatives of the world’s most advanced economies, often to the detriment of the places where the majority of the world’s population lives: the developing world.
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Podcasts
COP26: The Paralysis from Above
Jan 13, 2022
In a replay of INET Live’s webinar, following the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow last December, Richard Kozul-Wright of UNCTAD, Patrick Bond of the University of Johannesburg, and author Maude Barlow discuss the disproportionate impact climate change has on the developing world and the ways to best address it.
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How Important is the Unemployment Rate for the Wage Rate?
Sep 28, 2020
Persistent changes in unemployment have lasting consequences for income distribution
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Austerity Raises Covid Deaths
Mar 26, 2021
Mortality and economic data show how constraints to government spending and a skepticism of redistributive policies have made the pandemic far worse
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Noam Chomsky on the Populist Groundswell, U.S. Elections, the Future of Humanity, and More
Mar 20, 2018
The renowned linguist, cognitive scientist, and historian on where we stand as an economy, as a country, and as human beings
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Kapital for the Twenty-First Century?
Mar 30, 2014
What is “capital”? To Karl Marx, it was a social, political, and legal category—the means of control of the means of production by the dominant class. Capital could be money, it could be machines; it could be fixed and it could be variable. But the essence of capital was neither physical nor financial. It was the power that capital gave to capitalists, namely the authority to make decisions and to extract surplus from the worker.
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How Despair Helped Drive Trump to Victory
Nov 16, 2017
From the Rust Belt to Rural America, Economic and Social Distress Helped Shape the 2016 US Presidential Election Outcome