The second most important economist of the 20th century (after John Maynard Keynes) was Dr Osamu Shimomura, the "Father of the Japanese Economic Miracle"
In the late 1960s, I was given an usual assignment by the London Daily Mirror's editor in chief, Hugh Cudlipp. I was to return to my homeland, Australia, and "discover what lies behind the sunny face", writes John Pilger.
This is a reply to Slavoj Zizek's article "Mandela's Socialist Failure" published online in The Stone (a New York Times maintained philosophy blog) on December 6, 2013
Shimomuran economics is the name I have given to the collection of no-debt, high-growth economic understandings practised in post-war Japan and post-rapprochement China
Coal is a much nastier power source than the one we have chosen to fear in a deadly form of displacement activity, writes George Monbiot.
Thomas Riggins Analyses The Next Two Parts Of Lenin's Materialism and Empirio-criticism
Dr Tomasz Pierscionek shows how truth can be stranger and more shocking than fiction
Russell Brand's call for revolution reverberated with many beyond the underclass he referenced
Part 5 of Eric Toussaint's series Banks versus the People: the Underside of a Rigged Game shows that big banks continue playing with fire, because they are persuaded that governments will save them whenever necessary
Thomas Riggins continues to lead us through Chapter 3 of Lenin's book Materialism and Empiro-criticism