The Current Economic Situation in Britain
The latest economic data for the UK clearly demonstrates the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the economy, writes Susan Pashkoff. Collapse in [...]
Economics
Globally, the pandemic hits women
Food production and distribution, education, health and local transport are sectors in which large numbers of women work. This is the labour that holds societies together. But it is not valued, economically or socially, precisely because it is seen as traditional women’s work.
Only the labour movement can stop Johnson’s no-deal Brexit
Expecting capital to come to the rescue misunderstands the capitalist forces behind Johnson’s strategy
Mandel and Capitalist Breakdown
The crux of Mandel’s method was to use Marxist economic categories to analyse current problems, illuminated with contemporary data rather than filial quotes from Das Kapital.
Relaunch Labour’s Green New Deal
Just 6 per cent of the public want a return to the old pre-pandemic model of the economy. The rest want the lessons of the pandemic to be learned and for real change to be put in place.
Self-extinction of neoliberalism? Don’t bet on it.
Gilbert Achcar argues that even though governments are intervening massively to bail out entire sectors of the economy, it does not mean the end of neoliberalism.
The state and financialization: explaining recent European labor market policy
Why have neoliberal labor market policies survived the 2008 financial crisis? It cannot be because of their success. There is mounting evidence that measures such as [...]
Economics for the Many
Tony Traub reviews Economics for the Many, edited by John McDonnell, Verso This book is a valuable collection of sixteen short essays on the crisis facing modern Britain, [...]
Automation and ‘the disappearance of jobs’: what should the left propose?
There is a good deal of discussion in the media of the impact over the next few decades of computer-based mechanisation or automation of waged work, writes Jamie Gough. This [...]
The Great ‘Productivity’ Puzzle – or the Real Reasons for Britain’s Slump Economics
Would you believe it, asks Phil Hearse? Just when Theresa May was about to deliver on her October 2016 promise of a more equal society in the sunny uplands of Brexit Britain, [...]
