Für dieses Buch agiert Herausgeber C.J. Polychroniou als Fragensteller und Stichwortgeber für die beiden als Autoren genannten. Chomsky (Linguist) und Pollin (Wirtschaftswissenschaftler) geben ausführlich Antworten. So wird im Stil eines Interviews die Klimakrise beschrieben und als Lösung...

The 2007-08 global financial crisis was the second most disastrous global economic event of the last 80 years. Thanks to severe austerity measures and a fanatical commitment to fiscal consolidation, Europe’s overall economy is now close to stagnation and extremely high levels of unemployment...

With the crisis in the eurozone threatening the integrity of the European Union itself. German Chancellor Angela Merkel continues to brush aside calls to permit the European Central Bank to act as lender of last resort, and she remains steadfast against suggestions for the issuing of a eurobond....

The five-year-long crisis of Western finance capitalism is pushing advanced liberal societies to a breaking point. If governments continue to be proxies of finance capital and aspiring political leaders cheerleaders for their financial backers, a catastrophic economic scenario is not really as...