Thamizarasi does not know job safety or regular income. Work comes and goes for this 40-something agri-labourer in Alakudi, a village in Thanjavur district in Tamil Nadu. This month, for instance, farm owners did not need labourers like her because the local dam was yet to release water to irrigate their fields. During such...
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Wall Street is bankrupt. Instead of trying to save it, we can build a new economy that puts money and business in the service of people and the planet—not the other way around. Whether it was divine providence or just good luck, we should give thanks that financial collapse hit us before the worst...
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Professor Muhammad Yunus established the Grameen Bank in Bangladesh in 1983, fueled by the belief that credit is a fundamental human right. His objective was to help poor people escape from poverty by providing loans on terms suitable to them and by teaching them a few sound financial principles so they could help themselves....
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F. William Engdahl is an American-German freelance journalist, historian and economic researcher. He is author of the best-selling book on oil and geopolitics, A Century of War: Anglo-American Oil Politics and the New World Order (2004 Pluto Press. London). It has been published as well in French, German, Chinese, Korean, Turkish, Croatian, Slovenian and...
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Ernst Friedrich “Fritz” Schumacher (16 August 1911 – 4 September 1977) was an internationally influential economic thinker with a professional background as a statistician and economist in Britain. He served as Chief Economic Advisor to the UK National Coal Board for two decades. Schumacher’s ideas became well-known in much of the English-speaking world during...
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