If you read the pages of the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times (as you do!), you would be forgiven for thinking that Europe is about to implode economically and the great experiment of a European single currency is dead in the water. We are told by eminent Keynesian economists like Paul Krugman inContinue reading “Is the euro dead?”
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The bankruptcy of mainstream economics
Apologies for not having any new posts for a while but I’ve been working on a paper covering the various arguments by different schools of economics to explain why the Great Recession of 2008-9 took place. What is revealing is that mainstream economics (and by that I mean the economic theories of the official strategistsContinue reading “The bankruptcy of mainstream economics”
Talking about the world
I’ve just done a radio interview with speakerscorner.net http://www.archive.org/download/MichaelRobertsOnTheBritishEuropeanAndWorldEconomy/070510speakers.mp3 It covers a range of topics: the UK election, the Eurozone crisis, the global debt crisis, the nature of the financial crisis, the bankruptcy of mainstream economics and whether economic recovery will last. Phew! Pretty much sums up my views on all the current issues. AppreciateContinue reading “Talking about the world”
Hanging by a thread
Back in early March, I posted a blog about the UK election (The British election – it’s the economy, stoopid!, 7 March 2010), in which I argued that New Labour would be defeated in the general election expected in May. New Labour under Tony Blair and Gordon Brown had presided over an economy that hadContinue reading “Hanging by a thread”
Doing God’s work
Lloyd Blankfein is the chief executive officer of Goldman Sachs, the world’s most powerful investment bank. Last November, Lloyd was interviewed by the UK’ Sunday Times. It went something like this: “So it’s business as usual then, regardless of whether it makes most people howl at the moon with rage? Goldman Sachs, this pillar ofContinue reading “Doing God’s work”
Inequality of opportunity
Sorry, there’s been a gap between my last blog and this. I’ve been busy working for a living and also starting to prepare a paper for an upcoming conference of non-mainstream economists – more on that in the future. I’ll try to make more regular entries from now on. There’s a lot of blog itemsContinue reading “Inequality of opportunity”
From the horse’s mouth
Alan Greenspan was chairman of the US Federal Reserve during the great credit boom of 2002-07, which, as we know, ended in the massive credit crunch and financial sector collapse and the Great Recession of 2008-9. During the boom period, he was hailed as a virtual god by Wall Street speculators and mainstream economists. BobContinue reading “From the horse’s mouth”
The British election – it’s the economy stoopid!
Britain will go to the polls on Thursday 6 May. The campaigns of the major parties are under way and the usual ‘scandals’ and ‘revelations’ are coming to the surface, whether it is Gordon Brown’s bullying behaviour to his staff or Lord Ashton’s economics with the truth over his ‘offshore’ tax status as the mainContinue reading “The British election – it’s the economy stoopid!”
The overhang of debt
The Great Recession may be over in the sense that national output in the major capitalist economies has stopped falling and is even rising in some. But that does not mean real economic growth and employment is going to resume at previous levels. Before the bursting of the global credit bubble in 2007 and theContinue reading “The overhang of debt”
The rate of profit and economic crisis – the debate
It’s been a while since my last blog – other things to do, I’m afraid. And I promised to deal with some of the key criticisms of my view of the laws of motion of capitalist crisis that I raised in my book, The Great Recession (available from Lulu.com http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/the-great-recession/6079458). However, that will have toContinue reading “The rate of profit and economic crisis – the debate”
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