08 March, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Economy
Joel Bakan is a Canadian lawyer and writer. The author of several books he is also one of the makers of the award winning documentary The Corporation. He spoke to NLP on the role of corporations in modern society. How did the corporate form arise? Various forms of the corporate form have been...
01 March, 2010 // Category: Economy
In the last part of our interview about the global economic crisis with economist Robin Hahnel, the discussion moves onto how the left has and should react to it. Part 1 can be found here and part 2 can be found here. Are there any countries that responded to the crisis in a way that you find...
23 February, 2010 // Category: Economy
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at American University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. This is the second of a three-part interview about the global economic crisis. Part 1 can...
16 February, 2010 // Category: Economy
Robin Hahnel is Professor of Economics at American University. His most recent book is Economic Justice and Democracy. He is co-author with Michael Albert of The Political Economy of Participatory Economics. This is the first of a three-part interview on the global economic crisis; part 2 can be...
16 February, 2010 // Category: Activism, Economy
NLP talks to Michael Albert, co-founder of Z Magazine, ZNet and South End Press, about complementary holism, Participatory Economics and an alternative to capitalism. 1. Could you outline for us what the theory of complementary holism, is? Very briefly, it is a way of organizing one’s thoughts,...
31 January, 2010 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare
In connection with her commentary on the emergency budget, Susan Pashkoff offers a critical guide to its measures concerning the cuts, and their impacts. Given the historic nature of the budget, we publish this piece in order to provide an important point of reference. According to the IFS...
26 January, 2010 // Category: Economy, Environment
Noam Chomsky, once described by the New York Times as “arguably the most important intellectual alive”, is one of the leading figures on the international left today. NLP’s David Wearing spoke with him about nuclear proliferation, climate change, Haiti and the financial crisis. David...
26 January, 2010 // Category: Economy
In the tumultuous days of autumn 2008, as the Western banking system’s clogged arteries precipitated a financial heart attack that sent the world economy reeling toward the abyss, newspaper op-ed pages and TV studios were gripped with giddy talk of the end of free market capitalism. One sober...
30 November, 2009 // Category: Economy
Writing just after the Second World War, Emery Reves in his immensely popular Anatomy of Peace, made some moderate observations on the nature of Western state capitalist economies that he felt were uncontroversial: “Theoretically, complete freedom of competition in economic life is thinkable only...
04 October, 2008 // Category: Economy
Exclusively to ukwatch.net Corinna Lotz of A World to Win talks to Alex Doherty about the financial crisis and the prospects for a democratic self-managed economy in the UK. Can you tell our readers what A World to Win is – what are the organisation’s aims and how did the organisation come...
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