AGAINST THE CURRENT: economics

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IS THIS ROTTEN SYSTEM THE BEST WE CAN DO?

The political establishment and its cheerleaders have long pretended that Karl Marx's theories are irrelevant to pressing national and g...

While public ownership isn't even on the agenda of the New Zealand Labour Party, the British Labour Party is right now discussing dif...

We head into an election year faced with the prospect, in the light of the deficit blowout, of even more severe austerity measures. No priz...

This is a recent talk given by Richard Wolff. Wolff is Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of of Massachusetts. His most rece...

I've lost count of the number of times in the past twelve months various mainstream economic 'experts' or media pundits has i...

According to the United States government’s own figures, nearly 36 million Americans were living below the poverty line in 2007, including 1...

Domestic violence is bad! That's the astounding message being pushed in the Government's new television commercial. It's part of...

One of the more disturbing facts to come out of the disturbing and tragic death of Ms Muliaga - who died shortly after Mercury Power discon...

The anti-business monetary policy means that the NZ exchange rate compared to the Australian dollar has risen by 23% since 1991. This makes ...

The mainstream media's continued definition of the Labour Government as 'centre-left' Has always been woefully inaccurate. To de...