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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: financialization and sandwich shop capitalism

News Corpse April 25, 2021

Whether it’s soccer teams or sandwich shops, financialization was there before the pandemic, only making some of its supply-chain hijacking yet another example of an impending capitalist disaster. Re-regulation must remain … Read More

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Are carbon markets like papal indulgences

annieli March 28, 2021

Like Martin Luther objecting to Pope Leo X selling indulgences to raise money for a variety of excesses, the environmental costs of carbon markets far exceed the benefits. Austerity would have … Read More

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Anti-Capitalist Meet-Up: the Climate Crisis has weak carbon markets and lagging technology

annieli February 28, 2021

The sparse number of actual carbon capture and sequestration projects plus weak carbon markets amplify the problems of the climate crisis yet to be revisited, post-Trump. Two heartland examples in North Dakota and Texas show … Read More

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AntiCapitalist MeetUp: Climate Crisis, negative emissions technologies, and financialization

annieli January 31, 2021

As Climate Crisis returns to the new US administration agenda, negative emissions technologies (NETs) may find their implementation hindered by neoliberal financialization. An earlier ACM story showed how Steve … Read More

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A short, unfortunately instructive Labor Day story

RETIII September 4, 2018

Sometimes, even the best meaning economists completely muddle the picture. Everything seems so, well, complicated. Well . . . when I was in college in 1988 (!) a friend offered … Read More

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