Capitalism

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about competition October 2012
'Did sibling rivalry make you happy? Would you like to be treated by a more competitive doctor?'

Jeremy Hardy thinks… about greed August 2012
'In a market-driven society, it is a tribute to human decency that anyone behaves with any morals at all'

Occupy and the church January 2012
Mark Barrett and Ginger Haag explore how the Occupy movement has re-opened a debate within the church on the gap between markets and morals.

Crack capitalism or reclaim the state? April 2011
John Holloway and Hilary Wainwright debate strategy and tactics for social change

Degrow or die? November 2010
John Bellamy Foster opens a debate on ‘degrowth’, climate crisis and capitalism

Response: A constructive dialogue for change November 2010
John Bellamy Foster's critique of capitalism's ecologically destructive nature is sound, writes Ted Benton, but we need to think less vaguely about bringing together a coalition for change

We are the crisis of capital June 2010
John Holloway, author of Change the World Without Taking Power, argues that our response to the global economic crisis should be to create spaces outside of capitalism, not demand that it exploits us better

Credit crunch (book extract) November 2008
In this extract from his book, The Credit Crunch: Housing Bubbles, Globalisation and the Worldwide Economic Crisis, economist Graham Turner argues that in the current financial turmoil, the omens are not encouraging for remedying the inherent flaws that will tip us in to debt deflation