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POLITICS, PHILOSOPHY &ECONOMICS: Assorted posts 30 NOV 2010 – Cutting our noses to spite our faces The trouble with austerian logic is that it is grossly illogical. It does not even make sense in terms of the logic of microeconomics, let alone that of macroeconomics. 2 DEC 2010 – Antisemitism’s handmaidens I was recently sent a book that warmed my heart […]

The Internet has revolutionised the production and dissemination of information. It is a prime example of Hegel’s (and Marx’s) Dialectic at work. Of how quantitative changes lead to qualitative shifts and how technological innovations subvert prevailing social relations of production and distribution, engendering newfangled systems  via ‘creative disruption’. Of course, in the midst of any such […]

Μy theory of the Global Crisis, of which the European Crisis is a terrible offshoot, has been fully presented in The Global Minotaur. So, the reader’s first port of call on the Global Crisis must be the pages devoted to that volume – click here.  The present page lists a number of related posts that expand […]

Economics - Innovation - Inclusive Growth - Public Purpose | Mariana Mazzucato

Professor at ICTA-UAB and Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE • Author of THE DIVIDE and LESS IS MORE • Global inequality, political economy and ecological economics. Click to read Jason Hickel, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Philosopher, Cultural Critic, Activist

Pluto Press is an anti-capitalist, internationalist and politically independent publisher. Our books make timely interventions in contemporary struggles.

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