A sort article on the 2006 (non-)Nobel prize for economists going to Edmund Phelps basically repeating what socialists had argued as regards the role of unemployment in capitalism since at least Karl Marx
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Review: Rupturing the Dialectic
A review of a book by Autonomist Marxist Harry Cleaver. While sympathetic to the ideas raised, the book is ultimately unconvincing on a few levels. It appeared as “Struggling Against Work & Capitalism” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 76 (Summer 2019)
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Review: Democracy at work: A cure for capitalism
A review of a book by a Marxist academic advocating economic democracy. It could have done with some understanding of anarchist ideas for the goals aimed for — workers’ control — is far more at home within anarchism than Marxism. It appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 64/5 (Summer 2015).
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Pay Inequality: where it comes from and what to do about it
A short account of how exploitation happens within capitalism. It appeared, if memory serves, as “Mind the Gap!” in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 73 (Spring 2018)
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Poor Adam Smith
An account of Adam Smith’s less well remembered ideas which shows that the right is somewhat selective in what they take from his ideas. It first appeared in Anarcho-Syndicalist Review No. 66 (Winter 2016)
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