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Dec 20, 2021 // The long-standing dichotomy between the state and the market is misleading, and poses a major obstacle to understanding and addressing today’s policy challenges. We should instead aim to improve both, and to contain each within its respective sphere.
“The return of the state” is a phrase seemingly on almost everyone’s lips nowadays. Given the global challenges posed by the Covid-19 pandemic and climate change, the argument goes, it is governments, not markets, that should be responsible for allocating resources. The neoliberal revolution started by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher has apparently...
The real worry is the gap between what the country produces and what average folks can afford to consume. Inequality is eating our economy
The super-rich have bought armies of lobbyists to keep their taxes minuscule and to create tax loopholes large enough to drive their Lamborghinis through
How to calculate and implement a Universal Basic Income 2 June 2021 12:46 PM Share This: Refilwe Moloto and guests discuss what a Universal Basic Income Grant could mean for this country, and how to put it in place. Refilwe talks to Jonny Steinberg, a research associate at Oxford Universityâs African Studies Centre; Busi Sibeko, a researcher at the Institute for Economic Justice and Kyle Smith, editor in chief at Essential Millennial. The three researchers offer different perspectives on how the Universal Basic Income should be calculated and implemented Essential Millenial's Kyle Smith...