By Michael Roberts It’s just 100 days to go before the UK officially leaves the European Union and the political shenanigans continue over whether Prime
Category: Economics Archive
By Michael Roberts Is it supply that drives an economy or demand? Such was the question asked by Keynesian economics blogger and Bloomberg columnist Noah
By Michael Roberts Every year, I refer to the Credit Suisse Global Wealth Report 2018 for an update on the level of inequality of household wealth globally.
By Michael Roberts The G20 summit meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, ended with an agreement to disagree. They agreed to disagree about maintaining multilateral trade
By Michael Roberts This year’s Historical Materialism conference in London seemed well attended and with younger participants. Historical Materialism covers all aspects of radical thought: philosophical, political,
By Michael Roberts The mid-term Congressional elections saw a swing to the opposition Democrats in the Lower House and the Republicans were ousted as the
By Michael Roberts Was Keynes the great internationalist who aimed to make capitalism a stable system through macro management on a world scale? This is
By Michael Roberts Was Keynes a revolutionary in economic thought and policy? Was he at least radical in his ideas? Or was he a reactionary
By Michael Roberts Jerome Powell, the Trump-appointed Chair of the US Federal Reserve, spoke to the National Association of Business Economists (NABE) this week. He told
By Michael Roberts At the weekend, I participated in a session on what to do about the banks at the Momentum fringe of Labour Party
