Volume 10 No.5 - September/October 2018
Contents
Why have wages been allowed to stagnate?Ideology, ignorance, selfishness, delusion and intellectual fraud
Steven HailMinsky on secure employment
Guaranteed employment for all
EditorCorporations and mainstream media on “horrors” of higher wages
Plutocratic control of the political process guarantees inequality
Dean BakerWhat is a good economy?
Targeting full employment
Warren Mosler
New coal power cannot compete with solar and wind
The writing is on the wall for new coal
Mark DiesendorfNew coal doesn’t stack up
New power generation in Australia is mainly solar and wind
Matthew Stocks and Andrew BlakersThe renewable energy train is unstoppable
The NEG needs to get on board
Ken BaldwinDoes economic growth make us happier?
There is no correlation between economic growth and happiness in the long run
EditorFixing corporate governance – more than rearranging deckchairs
Reforming corporate structures
Andrew Linden and Warren StaplesThe loanable funds fallacy
Banks are not barter institutions that transfer preexisting loanable funds
Lars SyllCEO pay is not about value for money
Their remuneration is more about white male entitlement
Carl Rhodes and Peter FlemingKeynes – getting money into perspective
Keynes Book QuoteRBA evidence that you’ve been played for a sucker
The numbers in the Government’s accounts aren’t money
Damian PenstonBook extract, from Managing Without Growth:
Slower by Design, Not Disaster, by Peter Victor, publ by Edward Elgar
Part One EditorOnly speculators will profit from an Australian economic crash
The RBA thinks high stock prices are more important than unemployment
Steve KeenHow favours bleed the nation
Editor