[...] Perhaps life is kept going by our ignorance of its fundamental meaning, as capitalism is for Karl Marx. [...]
[...] Austerity is what led to the rise of national selfishness and tensions around national identity. Social development with equity is how hatred will be defeated.
[...] Africa doesn't need aid; it simply needs an international legal system that can protect it from permanent pillage.
A particularly interesting case is that of Germany and France, which in 1945 found themselves with public debts of around two years’ worth (200 percent) of GDP, levels even higher than Greece or Italy today. By the early 1950s those debts had fallen to less than 30 percent of GDP. Obviously, such a…
Partly due to intensified competition between countries, national governments have focused more and more on the most mobile taxpayers (highly skilled and globalized workers, owners of capital) at the expense of groups perceived as captive (the working and middle classes). This pertains to a whole s…
