This interview was originally published on May 28, 2014. Mr. Lapavitsas says that during the financial crisis the power of the state was mobilized to save finance.
This interview was originally released on January 23, 2014. Mr. Alperovitz tells TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay that the Vietnam War made it clear there was no way to a more rational capitalism, and there had to be fundamental change.
Robert Pollin advocates a macroeconomic agenda centered on full employment. The decades long neoliberal attack on the working class is heightened with COVID-19. The world needs a New Deal to counter levels of unemployment and inequality last seen in the Great Depression.
This interview was originally published on May 27, 2014. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lapavitsas says modern capitalism requires financialization, but productive growth in the interests of the majority of people does not.
The coronovirus pandemic exposes the consequences of taking the neoliberal road decades ago, explains Prof Radhika Desai. She discusses the failures of the Western capitalist system and the need to reorient our societies and economies.
This interview was originally published on May 25, 2014. Mr. Lapavitsas says that capitalists have learned how to make huge profits without producing anything useful.
This interview was originally published on May 24, 2014. Mr. Lapavitsas says that large-scale industrialization created the need for massive amounts of capital and big banks, a process that developed an aggressive global capitalism.
This interview was originally published on May 23, 2014. On Reality Asserts Itself, Mr. Lapavitsas says his politics were further formed in the upsurge of the Greek Left after military rule fell, and it led him to the study of economics in London.
This interview was originally published on May 22, 2014. Mr. Lapavitsas, author of ‘How Finance Exploits Us All’, traces his own political development, coming of age during the Greek dictatorship.
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