By Michael Roberts There is confusion among mainstream economists and policy-makers on whether the major economies are heading for a recession, are already in a
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By Michael Roberts Japan’s prime minister Fumio Kishida comfortably won last October’s general election for the lower house of the Diet for the ruling Liberal
By Michael Roberts In this third part of my series on the future of work, I want to deal with the impact of automation, in
By Michael Roberts Inflation, risk of global recession, growing inequality and rising debt for the global south, global warming, war – I could go on.
By Michael Roberts In the first post of my Future of Work series, I looked at the impact of working from home and remote work
By Michael Roberts It’s been a big week for the major central banks. First, the European Central Bank (ECB) called an emergency meeting because government
By Michael Roberts I recently participated in a zoom seminar to review a new book entitled Socialist Economic Development in the 21st Century by Alberto
The scissors of slump By Michael Roberts Last week, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen told the US Congress that “We now are entering a period of
By Michael Roberts If anything proves that famine and food insecurity are man-made rather than due to vagaries of nature and the weather, it is
By Michael Roberts Colombia has a presidential election today (29 May). According to public opinion polls, in the lead is Gustavo Petro. A former M-19
