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Hahnel: Climate Risks: Lessons From The Financial Crisis

Znet Article, April, 15 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Among the many talking points that Wall Street emphasized in its successful efforts to de-regulate the financial industry over the past three decades was that it was more sophisticated now than it was back in the 1920s - it knew how to manage risk...

Hahnel: Change How the World Works? Yes, We Can

Znet Article, April, 02 2009 Robin Hahnel
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Humorous disciples of neo-liberalism too often delight in ridiculing critics through caricature. So I welcome this opportunity to point out that we not only offered cogent reasons why capital and trade liberalization aggravate global inequality, b...

Hahnel: A Future for Socialism

Znet Article, December, 04 2008 Robin Hahnel
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According to Samuel Bowles, A Future for Socialism by John Roemer is “measured, highly accessible, and most of all compelling.” Spurred by this enthusiastic recommendation from my former teacher and esteemed colleague, I tore into the text anticip...

Albert: Revolutions in the East

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Michael Albert
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As a Czech poster put it, â€œthe Poles took ten years, the Hungarians ten months, the East Germans ten weeks, and the Czechoslovaks only ten daysâ€ to topple regimes once viewed as unassailable. Here is an attempt to distinguish the good news fro...

Hahnel: In Defense Of Participatory Economics

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Robin Hahnel
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In the shadow of the collapse of Communism, and very far from the public eye, a debate over what is a desirable economy has rekindled among a few who cannot convince themselves that human beings are not deserving and capable of better than capital...

Hahnel: Robin Hahnel Answers Various Criticisms of Participatory Economics

Znet Article, November, 19 2008 Robin Hahnel
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Questions from the LBO listserv...

Hahnel: Democratic Planners and Market Socialists

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Robin Hahnel
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Talk given to the Political Economy Seminar Series at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Hahnel: Edward Bellamy And The Twenty First Century

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Robin Hahnel
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It is not uncommon for geniuses to suffer from lack of recognition during their lives only to be canonized as intellectual giants after their departure. Edward Bellamy is a rare opposite case. The popular response to Looking Backward was so overwh...

Albert: Socialism As It Was Always Meant To Be

Znet Article, November, 18 2008 Michael Albert
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As the twentieth century draws to a close, what have we learned about how we should manage our economic affairs? What should we do if we had the opportunity to start again?

Hahnel: What Is To Be Done?

Znet Article, September, 20 2008 Robin Hahnel
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Early in the twentieth century most socialists thought that after capitalism was overthrown workers in different enterprises and consumers in different communities would plan their activities together with little difficulty. But if the history of ...

Albert: Excerpt from the introduction to Looking Forward (sep 1990)

Znet Article, August, 27 2008 Michael Albert
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Following the fine and sober book by the Hungarians George Konrad and Ivan Szelenyi, The Intellectuals on the Road to Class Power (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich), we can transcend the U.S. government, the Soviet government, the New York Times, and mos...

Hahnel: TINA Be Damned: Alternatives to Corporate Capitalism

Audio, April, 07 2008 Robin Hahnel
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Alternatives to corporate capitalism, different economic visions, and Venezuela’s social economy...

Hahnel: Venezuela: Not What You Think

Znet Article, December, 09 2007 Robin Hahnel
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In the case of Hugo Chavez and the Venezuelan Bolivarian Revolution, the mainstream media and politicians in the United States have elevated their game of demonizing all who oppose US foreign policy and business interests to a higher level of absu...

Hahnel: Panic Rules!: Everything You Need to Know About the Global Economy

Book, October, 12 2007

By Robin Hahnel

"For years, people have been asking what to read to understand the global economy, its institutions, its crises, the reasons for the particular forms it has taken and their effects- and what they can do about it. Is there really "No Alternative," ...

Hahnel: Economic Justice and Democracy: From Competition to Cooperation (Pathways Through the Twenty-First Century)