Capitalism’s continued crisis
The global economy has to be seen, not so much as a set of discrete national economies trading with each other, but as a vast “macro financial” web of corporate balance sheets and financial flows.
Analyzing Capitalism
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Fighting the ills of corporate concentration
In this new age of corporate concentration, we certainly need a much broader response than competition policy alone.
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Does Trump signal the end for free-market capitalism?
A necessary prerequisite for restoring Western democratic capitalism, and even more so social democracy or democratic socialism, is to force the genie of finance back into its bottle.
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The case against privatization and P3s
At this moment of deep political convulsion throughout the West, the fight against privatization is part of a broader struggle against the economic logic that has led to corrosive inequality and underpinned the bankrupt neoliberal economic paradigm.
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Foreign investment not always a benefit
Acquisitions by foreign corporations of Canadian companies may be in the interests of shareholders and corporate executives, but harmful from the perspective of workers and local communities.
