By Michael Roberts At the beginning of January, I posted my economic forecast for the world economy in 2022. I argued that, although the major
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By Michael Roberts The UK prime minister Boris Johnson is currently in danger of losing his job because of the blatant flouting by him and
By Michael Roberts Portugal’s ruling socialists under prime minister, António Costa, achieved a surprising victory in parliamentary elections on Sunday. The Socialists gained an outright
By Michael Roberts Marx’s law of the tendency of the rate of profit to fall (LTRPF) has either been heavily criticised or ignored as being
By Michael Roberts In this second post on the annual ASSA economics conference, I look at the papers and presentations made by radical and heterodox
By Michael Roberts The annual conference of the American Economic Association (ASSA 2022) took place last weekend. This year it was a virtual conference, but
By Richard Mellor from California, USA (Afscme trade union, Local 444, retired) I read today that January 3rd 2022 is an important day, a day
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By Michael Roberts Isabelle Weber is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the author of How China Escaped Shock
By Michael Roberts At the beginning of each year, I make an attempt to forecast what will happen in the world economy for the year
Mark Langabeer (Hastings and Rye CLP) reviews the recent Panorama documentary (here – shown 20-12-21) and asks “Will there be a slump?” It’s customary to
