The global casino

how Wall Street gambles with people and the planet

The global market in money - housed in the offshore 'shadow' banking system - holds $217 trillion in financial assets and operates beyond the reach of any nation's taxman. Asset managers, private equity firms, and pension and sovereign wealth funds scoop up the world's savings ...

The Case for the Green New Deal

What is the Green New Deal and how can we afford it? To protect the future of life on earth, we need to do more than just reimagine the economy-we have to change everything. One of the seminal thinkers of the program that helped ignite ...

The production of money

how to break the power of bankers

Money makes the world go round: but what is it really? And how is it produced? Above all, who controls its production, and in whose interests? Money is never a neutral medium of exchange. Nor are bankers simply go-betweens for savers and borrowers. In this ...

La producción del dinero

cómo acabar con el poder de los bancos

¿Por qué los bancos no dan crédito? Este libro tiene la respuesta. Dice Yanis Varoufakis que Ann Pettifor es la autora ideal de un libro sobre el dinero. Aunque oficialmente solo los bancos centrales generan dinero, en realidad sólo un 5% del dinero circulante tiene ...

The real world economic outlook

the legacy of globalization : debt and deflation

Real World Economic Outlook is a yearly publication that reviews issues in the global economy from a different, radical and more realistic perspective. In stark contrast to the output of other institutions like the IMF and World Bank, this annual report is written in an ...