Susan George se levanta de la elegante mesa de madera de su silencioso apartamento parisiense, taza de té en mano, y se acerca a la biblioteca. Rebusca entre sus libros. Entresaca El Minotauro global,del economista griego Yanis Varoufakis. “Aquí está”, dice, satisfecha. “Pero esto solo es para yonquis interesados en las finanzas, como yo”, bromea. Sí, el mundo de las finanzas. Una de sus... Read more
Los ensayistas y activistas Susan George y Carlos Taibo coinciden en la idea, tantas veces repetida, de que lo que vivimos no es una crisis, sino una estafa. Pero es que además, son varias estafas en una, con víctimas repartidas por todo el planeta, y sus efectos amenazan con colapsar nuestras relaciones económicas y nuestra misma forma de vida.... Read more
We live in a time of finance capitalism, when trading money, risk and associated products is more profitable and outpaces trading goods and services for capital accumulation. That is in short what people often refer to as “financialisation” of the economy. This has huge implications for where capital is invested and the everyday exposure of people to capital markets, as more and more aspects of... Read more
Lukas Oberndorfer legal scholar in Vienna and scientific staff member of the Austrian Chamber of Labour and the legal journal juridikum (zeitschrift für kritik|recht|gesellschaft). He is co-founder of the Study Group on Critical European Studies and lecturer of the University of Vienna.
The city of Florence is one of those privileged observation spots from which one can read the health of the Italian left and its international standing. Back in 2002 it was in this city that the first European Social Forum was organised. The event came a year after the bloody battle of Genoa, the event which marked the culmination of the anti-globalisation movement. Hundreds of thousands of... Read more
