Capitalism

Wasted, ravaged, destroyed: a plea for an end to this disastrous economic model.

January 2011

Susan George

Capitalism is the greatest waste...

Waste and capitalism

January 2011

Susan George

How the current economic model wastes people, communities, resources and money.

The resistible rise of corporate power

October 2010

Hilary Wainwright

The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

Lawyers, Guns and Money: Wall Street Lawyers, Investment Bankers and Global Financial Crises

July 2010

Tom Reifer

Over the last two centuries corporate lawyers and investment bankers have been central to the undemocratic consolidation of private corporate power.

Histories of the Present: Giovanni Arrighi, the Longue Duree of Geohistorical Capitalism, and the Current Crisis

July 2009

Tom Reifer

The range and scope of Giovanni Arrighi’s intellectual work – and in particular his ability to provide analysis rooted in a long-term geohistorical context - is truly an astonishing achievement,while his generosity of spirit towards his intellectual interlocutors had few equals.

If not capitalism, what?

November 2008

Hilary Wainwright

This moment of collapse of banks and their total dependence on public authorities is the moment to turn them into public utilities.

Carbon Trading: the limits of free-market logic

September 2007

Kevin Smith

Putting a price on carbon and making the polluter pay makes sense, doesn't it? Kevin Smith shows how carbon trading has merely created big profits for transnational companies and had no impact on climate change.