Author: Oleg Komlik
Unethical behavior of economists
BITS & BRIEFS: Loans cost the poor billions // Feminist economics // Schools & perception of inequality // Secretive world of offshore
Capitalism precedes Existence
BITS & BRIEFS: The myth of philanthropy // Global expellers by Saskia Sassen // Welfare encourages work // Hedge funds vs. student debt
BITS & BRIEFS: Regulatory Capture // “Sharing economy” as exploitation // Development Economics in Developing Countries // Bring Antitrust Bac
Class struggle — Karl Marx would be proud of this student
BITS & BRIEFS: Slavery & Capitalism // Lobbyists’ lies // Austerity increases suicides // Court and Debt Buyers
BITS & BRIEFS: Mathiness // Lottery taxes the poor // Surveillance Capitalism // Banks forgot the 2008 crash
BITS & BRIEFS: China and global capitalism // Credit score & dating // Class Actions vs. Individual Prosecutions // Religion & economy
Créditez-vous français? Credit as a relationship and a practice
Income Inequality
Financialization as a state project
Listen to the Athenian Solon: “Our virtue sticks with us and makes us strong, but money changes owners all day long”
Believe it or not — the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences committee’s reasoning for awarding Milton Friedman. You better believe it! He believed…
Capital as power and class struggle explained by… Adam Smith?!
Are we the 99%? The Corporatization of Activism and Cooptation of Social Protests
You found water on Mars. Very nice. So what about investing now tens of billions of dollars in dealing with water scarcity on Earth?
The Audacity of Science
