Really Really Free Markets

Markus Euskirchen | 2. June 2010 | Filed under: Rotating Post | Leave a comment

According to the capitalist lexicon, the “Free Market” is the economic system in which prices are determined by unrestricted competition between privately owned businesses. Any sensible person can recognize immediately that neither human beings nor resources are free in such a system; hence, a “Really Really Free Market” is a market that operates according to Continue reading →

Commons

Markus Euskirchen | 26. February 2010 | Filed under: Public GoodsRotating Post | Leave a comment

After several decades of relentless neoliberal enclosures, the idea of ‘commons’ is enjoying a renaissance amongst some neo-Keynesian economists and commentators, while political scientist Elinor Ostrom has just been award the Nobel prize ‘for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons’. Massimo De Angelis explains why capital’s commons will always be distorted – because Continue reading →

Privatization from a left perspective

Markus Euskirchen | 26. September 2008 | Filed under: PrivatizationRotating Post | Leave a comment

From a left perspective, the network ppg (privatization, public goods) examines impacts of privatization on the (re-)distribution of social ressources, on the (re-)distribution of political “goods” (effects of domination, democracy, participation, and access) and on the dimension of political/social conflicts. The network analyzes the interrelations between property, domination and equality.

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