By Michael Roberts Back in 2012, I made an initial attempt to go beyond measuring the rate of profit on capital in any one country
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By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Tuesday, 31 March 2026. The original article can be found here. ************** In
By Michael Roberts Professor David Harvey is a highly influential Marxist geographer and economic theorist whose work spans several decades. He is the author of
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on 19 March 2026. The original article can be found here. ************** The Iran
By Michael Roberts This week 250 years ago, Adam Smith published An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations – and
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Iran sanctions, the petrodollar and Bretton Woods
By Adel Mostowfi Sanctions and economic problems for the mass of the population have played an important part in the opposition to the Iranian regime
By Michael Roberts Today the crude oil topped $95 per barrel, despite the International Energy Agency (IEA) approving its largest-ever release of emergency oil reserves,
By Michael Roberts The Chinese government is just completing its annual ‘two sessions’ or lianghui. The ‘two sessions’ refers to two major political gatherings: the
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UK economy: still winter, not spring
By Michael Roberts Today, Britain’s Labour Chancellor (finance minister) Rachel Reeves presented her Spring Statement on government spending plans for the next few years. She
By Michael Roberts Oil prices rose nearly 9% toward $73 per barrel today, the highest in over eight months, as the joint US and Israeli
