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Jan 14, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | James K. Boyce |CJ Polychroniou
Economic policies have profound effects on the tensions within and between countries — tensions that can lead to war,” renowned progressive economist James K. Boyce remarked to me recently, adding that economics is in part “about plunder … and plunder sometimes morphs into war.”Given that economic triggers clearly contribute to conflicts, why is war a topic largely neglected by the economics profession?
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
laprogressive.com | James K. Boyce |Rob Maurer
Away from the big media screens, the polarised election battle in the United States is also about the future of the tremendous injection of illicit funds from Africa into the luxury real estate market. In March, federal authorities moved to seize a luxury apartment in Manhattan owned by the daughter of Denis Sassou Nguesso, long-time ruler of the Republic of Congo in central Africa.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
clarin.com | James K. Boyce
En marzo, las autoridades de Estados Unidos incautaron un departamento lujoso en Manhattan propiedad de la hija de Denis Sassou-Nguesso, ex presidente de la República del Congo, en África central. La demanda judicial señala que el origen de los fondos utilizados para comprar esa propiedad de 7 millones de dólares, con vista al Central Park, resulta de una “apropiación indebida, robo o malversación” del tesoro del Congo.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
thecommononline.org | James K. Boyce
By JAMES K. BOYCEPhotos by TIANNE STROMBECKOn July 4, 1981, something caught Evie Weinstein’s eye as she was washing dishes in a tidal pool on Eastern Egg Rock, a treeless island off the Maine coast. An Atlantic puffin, a football-sized seabird, emerged from the pea-soup fog with something dangling from its beak. Evie dropped the dishpan, grabbed the binoculars slung around her neck, and saw that the puffin had a beak-load of fingerling fish.
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Jul 14, 2024 | 
greenleft.org.au | James K. Boyce
Imperial Mud: The Fight for the FensBy James BoyceLondon: Icon Books, 2020248 pp. About 4000 years ago, the wetland areas of Eastern England known as the Fens were so abundant with fish, eels and waterbirds that eels were considered a form of medieval currency. The Indigenous people, collectively known as the Fennis, fought to preserve their lands, culture and community in the face of attempts to displace them by enclosure.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
znetwork.org | James K. Boyce |CJ Polychroniou
U.S. billionaires have seen their wealth nearly double since the Trump tax cuts took effect in 2017. In the meantime, the planet is getting hotter and the . Indeed, the interconnection between climate change and economic inequality has emerged as a central theme in serious economic analyses and a focal point of climate activism. In the exclusive interview for Truthout that follows, progressive political economist James K.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
scientificamerican.com | James K. Boyce
It’s official: this February was the hottest one on record. You may have noticed something odd when you stepped outside your door and winter was missing. It turns out the weather weirdness was worldwide. In case you missed it, this comes on top of the news that January was the hottest ever, too, and that 2023 was the we’ve experienced so far. Again and again, climate activists have warned that we have only so much time left to head off catastrophe.
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
medium.com | James K. Boyce
This series of publications aims to provide readers with managerial insights from Warren Buffett’s Letters to Shareholders. They are designed for managers and differ from previously completed reviews of the letters, which aim to provide insights about investing in marketable securities. Warren Buffett’s 1976 Letter to Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway consolidates previous lessons drawn in this series of reviews.
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May 31, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | James K. Boyce
Today I sit with Jordan Alsaqa and Randy Stone of Altruist Comics and the homage to silver age comics with Bullet Adventures. We speak about the continuation of their successful comic in which a young speedster is reintroduced to her Grandfather a former superhero of the late 60's who has returned as a young man. This issue combines humor, sci-fi, coming of age novelties, and everything that made you fall in love with the superhero genre.
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Mar 2, 2023 | 
advancedsciencenews.com | James K. Boyce
The impacts of carbon emissions on Earth’s climate are global, but the impacts of the hazardous co-pollutants released by fossil fuel combustion — including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and airborne particulates — are mainly local. In the United States, as elsewhere, low-income and minority communities are disproportionately impacted by pollution from power plants, refineries, and energy-intensive industrial facilities.
