ፍትህ ለሁሉም / Justice for All
The fight for greater equality has been behind some of the most momentous moments in human history. But since the advent of neoliberalism in the 1980’s, there’s been a view by many economists that inequality is inevitable and any interventions against it are unadvisable. In this eighth lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon …
The opportunities, social mobility, and high living standards enjoyed by Americans today are a consequence of two centuries of economic growth driven by a market economy and the legal and political institutions that underpin it. In recent years, however, increasing numbers of academics and public officials have argued that changes in technology and demographics make an …
For many, American democracy seems increasingly empty. What drained it? In The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (And a Radical Plan to Rebuild It), sociologist Michael A. McCarthy, professor at UC Santa Cruz and economic activist, points to finance capital as the main culprit. Big Finance, of course, is a particular form of Big Money—not the …
Mainstream economics is rooted in the idea that individual self-interest drives society. In this fourth lecture in INET’s “Economics For People” series, Ha-Joon Chang explores other, more complicated theories of the individual in the economy. About “Economics for People”: “It is extremely important for our democracy to function that ordinary citizens understand the key issues …
This has been a year of elections, resistance, and conflict, testing the integrity of democratic institutions and the principles of international human rights and humanitarian law. Whether in response to heightened repression in Russia, India, and Venezuela, or catastrophic armed conflicts in Gaza, Sudan, and Ukraine, governments around the world are being called upon to …
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In the fall of 2022, former President Donald J. Trump was a subject of two separate criminal investigations by the Department of Justice. The first was an investigation into whether any person violated the law in connection with efforts to interfere with the lawful transfer of power following the 2020 presidential election. The second investigation …