Mike Beggs

Oct 24, 2024 | rebelion.org | Mike Beggs

Fuentes: Jacobin ¿Qué tiene el capitalismo que hace del keynesianismo un horizonte que incluso a los aspirantes a revolucionarios les cuesta traspasar? Marx vivió lo suficientecomo para declararse «no marxista». Keynes no tuvo tanta suerte. Sus seguidoresharían luego la distinción entre «economía keynesiana» y «la economía deKeynes». Pero para entonces la palabra ya había trascendido al hombre. Unnombre no se convierte en un «ismo» sólo por su genialidad.

Feb 19, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Mike Beggs

The year was 1997. Bill Clinton was beginning his second term; Tony Blair’s New Labour was coming to power after a resounding victory; and European Union member states were putting together the Stability and Growth Pact (vowing to keep government deficits below 3 percent and debt below 60 percent of GDP). Meanwhile, Alan Blinder was asking the readers of Foreign Affairs whether government was ‘too political’ — that is, too much under the influence of elected politicians competing for votes.

Feb 19, 2024 | tribunemag.co.uk | Mike Beggs

The year was 1997. Bill Clinton was beginning his second term; Tony Blair’s New Labour was coming to power after a resounding victory; and European Union member states were putting together the Stability and Growth Pact (vowing to keep government deficits below 3 percent and debt below 60 percent of GDP). Meanwhile, Alan Blinder was asking the […] The year was 1997.

Jan 28, 2024 | totimes.ca | Mike Beggs

Some forty years after they topped the Canadian pop charts with the song “Don’t Forget Me (When I’m Gone)”, Glass Tiger continues to appear regularly at festivals, casinos, and soft-seat theatres across the country. But front man Alan Frew will have something different for fans when he plays Toronto’s Opera House night club on Saturday, February 17.

Aug 7, 2023 | znetwork.org | Mike Beggs

The idea of a socialist “private sector” may seem oxymoronic, but it differs from capitalist private enterprise in three ways: (1) personal income and wealth are far more evenly distributed, (2) financial claims on firms are indirect, via a public banking system, and (3) firms are run democratically by their workers. Some of the traditional socialist objection to markets comes from their association with the wide inequalities of capitalism.