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Matías Vernengo Economic historian Carlo Cipolla famously noted that human beings fall into four basic categories: the martyr who takes an action and suffers a loss while producing a gain to others;...
View ArticleAs We Now Enter the Sixth Year of the Global Recession
Erinç Yeldan The global capitalist economy has now entered its sixth year of recession, as it continues to suffer from its worst crisis since the Great Depression. Initially dismissed as routine...
View ArticleWhy Is the 2008 Crisis Taking So Long to Resolve? (Part 1)
Yilmaz Akyüz Lynn Fries of The Real News Network interviews regular Triple Crisis contributor Yilmaz Akyüz about the intractability of the current global economic crisis. Akyüz traces this to...
View ArticleGloom Ahead of World Economic Storm
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury Cross-posted at Inter Press Service. In light of the uncertainty caused by the US-China trade war, the IMF expects the US economic growth to slow from a...
View ArticleOfficial Reforms and India’s Real Economy, Pt. 1
By Sunanda Sen, guest blogger Part one of a three-part series, a version of which was published in Economic and Political Weekly on September 21, 2019. That the Indian economy is currently...
View ArticleOfficial Reforms and India’s Real Economy, Pt. 2
By Sunanda Sen, guest blooger Part two of a three-part series, a version of which was published in Economic and Political Weekly on September 21, 2019. Find Pt. 1 here. Pt. 2: How effective to revive...
View ArticleOfficial Reforms and India’s Real Economy, Pt. 3
By Sunanda Sen, guest blogger Part three of a three-part series, a version of which was published in Economic and Political Weekly on September 21, 2019. Find Part 1 here and Part 2 here. Part 3:...
View ArticleInformal Workers in the Time of Coronavirus
By C. P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh Republished from Network IDEAs; originally published in the Business Line on March 24 2020. The global devastation caused by Covid-19 is only just beginning,...
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