CAPITAL AND IDEOLOGY by Thomas Piketty Belknap Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts Hardcover: 1,104 pages Price: AUD$79.99 Reviewed by Colin Teese Back in 2014, French academic economist Thomas Piketty published Capital in the Twenty-First Century. His aim was to codify what he called the “grand dynamics” that drove the accumulation and distribution of capital. He brought to…
by Colin Teese The experiment of globalisation, and the policies that sustain it, are pretty much stressed out. This marks the second failure of globalisation. The first, in the late 19th century, also failed. Yet, despite its earlier failure, globalisation did make a comeback. In the year 2000, U.S. think tank the Centre for Economic…
by Colin Teese For those Australians hoping for forward-looking, enlightened government economic programs to take us beyond covid19, the signs are not promising. Prime Minister Scott Morrison, and it would seem most of his cabinet, are looking backwards for inspiration as they struggle to develop policies for how economic Australia might look a year or…
by Colin Teese Readers of these pages, whether or not they follow national or international events, will know about the price of petrol. Because every time they fill up their car, it touches their hip pocket nerve. If the price of petrol rises, buyers have less to spend on other things or to boost their…
