Michael Roberts

By Michael Roberts, Published on The Next Recession, Feb 18, 2023: There has been a burst of optimism about the state of the world economy since the beginning of the year.  At the end of last [...]

By Michael Roberts, Published on the Next Recession, Aug 13, 2022: Last week, Ukraine’s foreign private creditors agreed to the country’s request for a two-year freeze on payments on about $20bn [...]

VIDEOS / WEBINAR What is the real state of the world economy? This webinar assesses the relative strengths of the two most important protagonists, China and the USA. As the rift between them [...]

Today, 25m Peruvians vote in the second round of a crucial Presidential election.  The voters are being asked to choose between two candidates. By Michael Roberts Published on the Next Recession, [...]

Much has been made recently of the slowdown in population growth in China.  China’s population grew at its slowest rate in decades in the ten years to 2020, according to the latest census data, [...]

March 5, 2021, was the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rosa Luxemburg, the great revolutionary socialist of the Polish-German labour movement.  Luxemburg’s contribution to socialist ideas and [...]

During the year of the COVID, output, investment and employment in nearly all the economies of the world plummeted, as lockdowns, social isolation and collapsing international trade contracted [...]

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the attitude of big pharma.  Now there are billions to be made in selling effective vaccines to governments and health systems.  And in double-quick time, a [...]

The Democratic party candidate, Joe Biden has beaten the Republican party incumbent Donal dTrump for the US presidency in 2020.  What can we learn from election result about the United States of [...]

This week the 5th plenum of the Chinese Communist Party central committee is taking place.  The plenum is to discuss the progress of the Chinese economy and to decide on real GDP growth and other [...]