By Michael Roberts Robert Lucas has died at the age of 85. Lucas was a leading mainstream neoclassical economist at the University of Chicago –
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By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts on Saturday, 13 May 2023. The original article can be found here. ************** Turkey
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye Labour member) watched the recent ITV/ITVX documentary (see here). ITV’s Tonight Reporter, Kate Quilton, investigates the causes of rocketing food
By Michael Roberts This blog was originally published by Michael Roberts last Friday, 5 May 2023. The original article can be found here. ************** The
By Michael Roberts The collapse of First Republic Bank is the latest chapter in the rolling banking crisis in the US. This was the second
By Michael Roberts Last week, the Bank of England’s chief economist, Huw Pill, doubled-down on the argument that the current inflationary spiral affecting the major
By Michael Roberts Christine Lagarde, the head of the European Central bank (ECB), made an important ‘keynote’ speech last week to the US Council of Foreign Relations
By Michael Roberts Only last February, I posted that there had been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy in 2023.
By Michael Roberts ChatGPT is being heralded as a revolution in ‘artificial intelligence’ (AI) and has been taking the media and tech world by storm
By Michael Roberts The recent massive demonstrations against the Macron administration in France forcing through so-called pension reforms reveals the determined attempts of pro-capitalist governments
