How long will we economists, engineers, lawyers, architects, administrators and so many other professionals go along with the use of our technical expertise for stupid, if lucrative, aims? There is no necessary contradiction between…
A vicious circle generating social polarization, violence and more corporate-dominated politics: the inequality issue goes much beyond poverty and lack of access to basic goods and services. It is also about the feeling of…
The world is presently aware of the catastrophic management of the global environment issues, the explosive inequality, the absurd growth of fortunes at the very top, the erosion of democracy. The corporate world, deeply…
Moral indignation in economics is considered to be unscientific. Allow me some moral outrage as the planet is awash in financial resources, top level technologies, updated statistics on every dimension of our potentials and…
The overall decision process we call politics is outdated, and does not correspond to the challenges we face. We face global finance and high-frequency trade with national-scale policies, and global money is too slippery…
We are honored to publish this original paper by our esteemed Advisory Board member Professor Ladislau Dowbor, Chair of the Economics Department at the Pontificate Catholic University in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Prof. Dowbor is one…
Henri Giroux apresenta neste artigo uma visão de rara profundidade sobre a transformação da América profunda. Trump é apenas um resultado, um sintoma de uma gangrena que vai tomando conta do tecido social….
Austerity is not working, because it essentially means a huge transfer of financial resources to the hands of an unproductive financial elite, and a reduction of purchasing power at the bottom of the pyramid,…
Delayed vaccination of people across the world increases possibilities of virus mutation, reducing the ability to control the pandemic even in rich countries that have bagged vaccines. “The advanced countries learned, even if briefly,…
This book is about systemic change in what we consider as capitalism. Far beyond qualifications such as Industry 4.0, the view presented here is that the very structures of capitalism are currently being displaced,…
With the COVID-19 pandemic forcing governments to spend on an unprecedented scale to sustain businesses and households, there has never been a better time to restore the state to its proper role as a…
The Bolsa Familia program of money transfers to the roughly 50 million poor at the bottom of the pyramid is internationally known but its success was grounded in a much wider set of 149…
Relator da ONU, Philip Alston, constata que estamos perdendo a guerra pela redução da desigualdade. “Mesmo antes da pandemia, 3,4 bilhões de pessoas, quase a metade do mundo, vivia com menos de US$5,50 por…
We are all discussing the coronavirus crisis, but we must also look at the underlying economic crisis. Understanding how the Brazilian distributive experience worked, and how it was broken down with a parliamentary coup,…
First, the obvious thing: our problem is not a lack of money, but mismanagement. Or, to say it in an updated way today, it is lack of governance, of making the whole work….
Essas minúsculas pragas se adaptam com tanto sucesso às mudanças nas condições que se tornaram o predador mais mortal da humanidade. Em breve poderemos erradicá-los – mas deveríamos?…