financial capitalism

  • Value for Money | Philosophy Impact

    My colleague Steve Fuller contributes a draft of his latest article to the Philosophy Impact blog. In this article , I write as the UK partner of an exploratory project funded by the US National Science Foundation to critically evaluate current… Continue reading

  • Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company

    Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few… Continue reading

    Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
  • Capitalism vs. Democracy – NYTimes.com

    Thomas Piketty’s new book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century,” described by one French newspaper as a “a political and theoretical bulldozer,” defies left and right orthodoxy by arguing that worsening inequality is an inevitable outcome of free market capitalism.Piketty, a… Continue reading

    Capitalism vs. Democracy – NYTimes.com
  • Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist

    Large outstanding personal debts – say a mortgage taken out during a housing bubble – can turn even the stoutest of us into ‘quivering insomniac jellies of hopeless indebtedness’ (as Margaret Atwood so accurately puts it). Debt is, we feel,… Continue reading

    Debt – a global scam | New Internationalist
  • The Financial War Against the Economy at Large

    …By not raising taxes on the wealthy or using the central bank to monetize spending on anything except bailing out the banks and subsidizing the financial sector, the government follows a pro-creditor policy. Tax favoritism for the wealthy deepens the… Continue reading