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
Category: Economics Archive
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
By Michael Roberts The victory of Gabriel Boric in the Chilean presidential election last weekend was a crushing blow to the capitalist establishment, its press
By Michael Roberts “The inflation that we got was not at all the inflation that we were looking for,” US Federal Reserve Chair Jay Powell
By Andy Fenwick, Worcester South Labour member “It’s the same the whole world over: It’s the poor what gets the blame. It’s the rich what
By Michael Roberts The world has become more unequal in income and wealth in the last 40 years. That’s according to the World Inequality Report
By Michael Roberts Once again, it is time to look at what is happening to the rate of profit on capital in the US. I
By Michael Roberts The Chinese Communist party’s central committee recently held its sixth plenum, to discuss “the major achievements and historical experience” of the party in its
By Michael Roberts How is the global recovery after the COVID pandemic going? The economic consensus is that the major economies are recovering fast, driven
