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- Fetishising the Growth Rate of GDPby Prabhat Patnailk on 22 April 2024 at 08:02
John Stuart Mill was among the foremost liberal thinkers of modern times who wrote extensively on economics and philosophy. Though under the influence of his wife Harriet Taylor Mill, he came closer towards socialism late in his life, it was…
- Challenging the Duopoly: Jill Stein on why she’s running for US president as Green Party Candidateby betaideas on 22 April 2024 at 05:53
Jill Stein explains why she decided to run for US president on an anti-war, pro-worker platform, challenging the duopoly of the Democrats and Republicans as the candidate for the Green Party. She is interviewed by political economists Radhika Desai and…
- The Debt Trap and the Global Southby betaideas on 20 April 2024 at 11:37
A ‘debt trap’ is ensnaring the Global South, a crisis forcing governments into difficult choices. How do these debts lead to indirect taxation, subsidy cuts, and the resulting hardships for the common people? This as these challenges often push countries…
- Africa’s Debt Crisis needs a Political Fix, contend expertsby betaideas on 20 April 2024 at 11:17
Ghana’s women vendors and hawkers are hard to miss. Attired in bright colours and bold prints, they walk swiftly on capital Accra’s streets, bearing baskets with various items on their heads, as infants wrapped in cloth carriers sit clasping their…
- The Collapse of Neoliberal Privatisationby C. P. Chandrasekhar on 19 April 2024 at 06:22
Thames Water, one of England’s many regional water monopolies, infamously privatised by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s and symbolising the dramatic turn in economic policy that neoliberalism implied, is finally collapsing. Unable to mobilise £500 million from shareholders who have…