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This short note introduces the debate on the future of economic policy and reform of capitalism, to be hosted in a new temporary section of the journal. It is essential to debate how to achieve a balance between 'bread' (economic security) and 'liberty' (political freedom), in a dynamic sense,...
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inevitable, much less natural, and has connected the state of democracy worldwide to rising economic inequality. Wealth transfers … of wealth require that the participatory and representative facets of democracy be kept in check. Beyond suitable … political parties point to two distinct forms of oligarchy in play: plutocracy, representing the decay of liberal democracy, and …
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The article provides a broad-based overview on competing development strategies and the economic performance of developing countries, mainly since the year 2000. Four traditional mainstream development strategies are discussed (Washington Consensus, neo-liberalism, "good governance" and MDGs)...
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In the last three decades, two questions have been central for the Left. Is there a future for electoral socialism and … social democracy? And, is it any longer possible to promote a significant redistribution of income in favour of labour …
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Thomas Piketty is the most politically and economically important participant in the ongoing debate about the deleterious effects of income and wealth inequality. The article analyses his arguments carefully because they give Marxists an opportunity to intervene in a mainstream...
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Complementing the existing literature that focuses mostly on the personal distribution of income, this paper studies how social democratic governments affect the factor distribution of national income between capital and labor, in the corporate sector. Drawing from the literature on partisanship...
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In recent years much attention has been given to the subject of delinking of developing countries from the world …
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