Global economic crisis

The European crisis through the lens of financialisation

May 2012
Antonio Tricarico

The financial sector through the Euro crisis hopes to further extract wealth from public sectors, driven by its goal to commodify the whole economy and nature itself.

Video: Emerging Powers: Allies or Rivals?

January 2011
Dr. Chaohua Wang, Research Scholar in Chinese Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

The economic elites are turning to a neoliberal Keynesianism to save the crisis of capitalism, which is doomed to fail because it does not address its root causes.

Poor recovery, high costs

October 2010

The Great Recession shows no clear signs of ending, but conservative solutions to it have already wrought great long-term social damage.

CEO Pay and the Great Recession

September 2010

CEOs of the 50 firms that have laid off the most workers in the US since the onset of the economic crisis are not tightening their own belts.

'Save Us From These Bankers, Fast'

July 2010
David Cronin

Besieged by bankers opposed to regulation of their sector, members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have taken an unusual step

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

July 2009
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.

UN Conference on the world financial and economic crisis

June 2009
TNI

Spearheaded by the current President of the UN General Assembly Miguel D´Escoto Brockmann, the UN Conference on the Financial and Economic Crisis and its Impacts on Development took place from June 24-26, 2009.