There's a common misconception that poor countries are catching up with rich countries. With the exception of China, catch-up isn't really happening. In fact, income inequality between rich countries and poor countries is generally getting worse, not better.

La Spagna ha la patrimoniale, 2 miliardi di gettito l'anno scorso. Tassa le eredità, 3 miliardi l'anno scorso. Tassa i ricchi e cresce, 3% nel 2024, tra il 2-3% nel 2025. L'Italia, paradiso fiscale per i ricchi, non cresce e la gente non va più in ferie. theguardian.com/politics/2025/….

Ha-Joon Chang wrote in the Financial Times about the need to rejuvenate economics teaching (as Mariana Mazzucato and many others have been claiming). Not only does its teaching need to be open to variety, but the economics science itself needs to become interdisciplinary.

The rapid decline of American science has few precedents in history, argues Ross Andersen. We are witnessing an unparalleled act of self-sabotage: theatlantic.com/science/archiv…

Vivo la politica come spirito di servizio. In Calabria c’è una forte voglia di cambiamento: sanità, lavoro, sviluppo e infrastrutture saranno al centro della svolta che vogliamo costruire insieme. Ne ho parlato oggi su Corriere, Repubblica e Fatto Quotidiano.

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the McKinsey types are worried about the working class under socialism news flash.

Reading Jacob Lew's interview The New Yorker one is reminded that genocide is at the very foundation of the nation. We're returning to the nineteenth century.

"Economics today resembles Catholic theology in medieval Europe: a rigid doctrine guarded by a modern priesthood who claim to possess the sole truth. Dissenters are shunned. This is not education. It’s indoctrination." - Ha-Joon Chang

Governments are increasingly treating industrial policy as a matter of national security. This shift has ushered in a new wave of economic nationalism. In our new paper, we examine this global shift — focusing especially on what's happening in the US, China, and the EU.

Free-market capitalism creates oligarchic societies that, ironically, restrict freedom for most people. This book by Stiglitz is a masterclass in explaining how the ruling classes on the right appropriated and misused the term ‘freedom’.

My opponents are *still* competing for love from Trump and the billionaires. And I’m going to let them fight it out at whatever unofficial debates pop up this month. We’re bringing this campaign to you.

Some things never change. As I explained on BBC Newsnight in 2017 (in the clip below), the challenge facing the UK then, as now, is chronic underinvestment—both public and private. The real question isn't how much government spends, but whether public investment expands

Secondo uno studio dell'Università di San Paolo, il disboscamento dell'Amazzonia è responsabile del 70% della riduzione di piogge in America del Sud e del 17% dell'aumento della temperatura. Senza foresta non c'è acqua e non c'è vita.

L'esecuzione sommaria da parte delle forze armate statunitensi di undici presunti "narcoterroristi" al largo del Venezuela è un fatto grave, che accelera una tendenza che potrebbe condurci verso la barbarie. Ne ho scritto oggi per il manifesto

Lefties are not having kids. Visit today's Chartbook to find out more!

The degree to which Western countries are willing to humiliate their own citizens - and themselves - simply to enable Israel to continue to commit genocide, is beyond belief...

La prima barca a lasciare il porto di CT per unirsi alle delegazioni spagnola e tunisina #GlobalSumudFlotilla è quella del team di avvocati e giornalisti a tutela legale e scorta mediatica. Chiamata Shireen per ricordare la reporter USA-palestinese uccisa nel ‘22 #Rainews24

Please god let it not be martial law over Charlie Kirk.

“I think it's worth to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational.” -Charlie Kirk newsweek.com/charlie-kirk-s…