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Volume 8 No.6 – November-December 2016
Contents
Paying for public services, in a monetary sovereign state
Steven Hail
Modern economics is sick
Lars Syll
The cost of sustaining the current financial system
Editor
Is the free market efficient?
Editor
Abba Lerner: Functional finance and the federal debt
Editor
UK model and the risk of civilisation’s collapse by 2040
Nafeez Ahmed
Bill Mitchell on the purposes of taxation
Editor
David Kotz asks: What does neoliberal ideology require?
Colin Cook
The bean counters score
Colin Cook
News & views from NZ
100% pure bilge water
Dennis Dorney
A dismal tale of failure
John Kelly
40% of people won’t have access to clean water by 2030
Reynard Loki
Volume 8 No.5 -September-October 2016
Contents
The zombie doctrine – neoliberalism George MonbiotAverage incomes in the U.S. David Ruccio
Taxes – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em Geoff Coventry
Worldwide fiscal crisis: fact or fiction? John T. Harvey
Economic theory as ideology Asad Zaman
Scare stories about a financial transactions tax Dean Baker
The feasibility and hidden drawbacks of a debits tax Elinor Hurst
HILDA survey: median Australian wealth is falling Editor
The Panama Papers and neoliberal capitalism Alan Ecob
Kaine and Clinton now oppose the TPP Editor
Joseph Stiglitz quits the “Panama Papers” commission Editor
Keynes on the division between money and debts Editor
Bill Mitchell on the causes of the global financial crisis Editor
Try fiscal policy, stupid! Steven Hail
Is the housing boom nearly over? Dennis Dorney
Land of the ‘fair go’ no more Wealth in Australia is becoming more unequal Christopher Sheil and Frank Stilwell
Volume 8 No.4 – July-August 2016
Contents
A thought experiment on budget surpluses
Steve Keen
Economists’ understanding of competition
Editor
Monopoly’s new era
Editor
Bank of North Dakota soars despite oil bust
Ellen Brown
Rise of the prosumer
Greg Reid
The tiny little problem with Chicago economics
Lars Syll
News and views from NZ: Housing — again
Dennis Dorney
The energy and transportation revolution
Editor
Closing the Panama tax haven (Interview)
Michael Hudson
Panama papers source: Intentions behind data leak
Editor
IMF admits that neoliberalism causes inequality
Editor
OECD warning: Australian real estate risks contraction
Editor
Practical economics is radical?
Peter Radford
Why the Trans-Pacific trade deal should be an election issue
Patricia Ranald
Volume 8 No.3 – May-June 2016
Contents
Money and the myth of barter
David Ruccio
Mervyn King: another crisis is certain without bank reform
Editor
Mervyn King on the eurozone crisis
Editor
Economic propaganda – not education
David Ruccio
How the unemployed ‘disappear’ and why it matters
R Stambe, D Fryer
The thing Sanders, Trump and Clinton agree on
David Korten
The modern debt jubilee; taboo medicine that we need
Jesse Hermans
Fools or liars on the TPP?
Dean Baker
Flat earth rules
Peter Radford
‘Partnerships’ that complete the corporate world takeover
Paul Craig Roberts
The Panama papers, bail-ins and the push to go cashless
Ellen Brown
A monetary sovereign can never run out of money
Steven Hail
News & views from NZ: The more things change . . .
Dennis Dorney
Sustainable power markets
Greg Reid
Volume 8 No.2 – March-April 2016
Contents
What is neo-liberalism?
Editor
Percent change in real wages, 2007-2014
David Ruccio
Thatcher and the neoliberal counter-revolution
Lars Syll
Food insecurity
Greg Reid
News & views from NZ: End of sovereignty (Pt 2)
Dennis Dorney
Milton Friedman before and after the abduction
Editor
TPP: Crunch time in parliament
Patricia Ranald
They’re coming!
David Ruccio
The ‘journal game’
Lars Syll
The nature of money
Steven Hail
Patients bankrupted by pharmaceutical company greed
Steven Rosenfeld
Warren Mosler’s proposals for the banking system
Editor
The huge, hidden cost of population growth
Geoff Davies
Tilting at windmills: the Faustian folly of QE
Editor
Signs that economists haven’t the foggiest
Editor
McCloskey on the role of mathematics in economics
Editor
Will house prices collapse if negative gearing changes?
Gavin Wood
Volume 8 No.1 January-February 2016
Contents
Must the human race die out for financial reasons?
Editor
Battlers and plutocrats: rewarding Australia’s super rich
Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster
Capitalism and technology
David Ruccio
Austerity — U.S. style
David Ruccio
Bernanke: governments ‘too focused on budget cuts’
John Hermann
How to get published in ‘top’ economics journals
Lars Syll
Data on U.S. productivity and income
Editor
How to build a crisis
George Monbiot
The concentration of wealth and power
Editor
News & views from NZ: The three ghosts of Christmas
Dennis Dorney
Indian solar could be cheaper than coal within 5 years
Editor
Krugman on the COP21 climate change meeting
Editor
Key issues in the text of the TPP agreement
AFTINET
Government spending and household spending
John Hermann
Would the steady-state economy be a miracle?
Herman Daly
For-profit colleges are scandalous machines
Jim Hightower
Beginning of the end for diesel cars?
Editor
Lessons from the recession we didn’t have to have
Warwick Smith