Trumponomics: causes and consequences – Part I – RWER issue no. 78

Auerback, Galbraith, Hudson, Kelton, Wray, Tcherneva provide an MMT-based critique of Trumponomics. 

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Trumponomics: causes and consequences – Part I – RWER issue no. 78

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Preface          download pdf

Trumponomics: everything to fear including fear itself?          3
Jamie Morgan          download pdf                                                                           

Can Trump overcome secular stagnation?          20
James K. Galbraith            download pdf                              

Trump through a Polanyi lens: considering community well-being          28
Anne Mayhew            download pdf                                                                                    

Trump is Obama’s legacy. Will this break up the Democratic Party?          36
Michael Hudson          download pdf

Causes and consequences of President Donald Trump          44
Ann Pettifor               download pdf                                 

Explaining the rise of Donald Trump          54
Marshall Auerback          download pdf 

Class and Trumponomics          62
David F. Ruccio          download pdf 

Trump’s Growthism: its roots in neoclassical economic theory          86
Herman Daly          download pdf 

Trumponomics: causes and prospects          98
L. Randall Wray          download pdf 

The fall of the US middle class and the hair-raising ascent of Donald Trump
Steven Pressman          download pdf          112

Mourning in America: the corporate/government/media complex          125
Neva Goodwin          download pdf 

How the Donald can save America from capital despotism          132
Stephen T. Ziliak          download pdf 

Prolegomenon to a defense of the City of Gold          141
David A. Westbrook          download pdf 

Trump’s bait and switch: job creation in the midst of welfare state sabotage
Pavlina R. Tcherneva           download pdf          148

Can ‘Trumponomics’ extend the recovery?          159
Stephanie Kelton           download pdf 

Board of Editors, past contributors, submissions and etc.          173

Financial Diversion — Gordon Long interviews Michael Hudson

On the FIRE economy.

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Financial Diversion

Gordon Long interviews Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson — Two interviews

Blockbuster stuff. Bernie should be using him.

I think you could say that at the broadest level, the idea is to roll back the Enlightenment and restore feudalism.

Naked Capitalism
Michael Hudson Discusses the New Global Financial Cold War
Bonnie Faulkner interviews Michael Hudson for Guns and Butter (transcript)

Counterpunch
The Federal Reserve and the Global Fracture
Finnish journalist Antti J. Ronkainen interviews Michael Hudson

Michael Hudson — Rewriting Economic Thought

Transcript of Eric Draitser interviews Michael Hudson.

Longish but good. About rent extraction and economic parasitism, and some of the key social and political and economic factors involved in neoliberalism that make it an illiberal theoretical construct, as revealed in its application in contemporary capitalism.

Rewriting Economic Thought
Michael Hudson | President of The Institute for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends (ISLET), a Wall Street Financial Analyst, and Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City

No Brains In Washington — Paul Craig Roberts

Paul Craig Roberts was the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Economic Policy in the Reagan Administration and one of the developers of supply side economics. He was also associate editor of the Wall Street Journal. When he starts agreeing with Noam Chomsky and Michael Hudson about "neoliberal economics" being the problem, you know that something is up. This is not supposed to happen in a normal world.

No Brains In Washington — Paul Craig Roberts

China – Russia sidestep neocons — Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Hudson

Video and transcript.

Michael Hudson
China – Russia sidestep neocons

Sharmini Peries interviews Michael Hudson