Xavier Ricard Lanata: The dilemmas of the reconfiguration of capitalism The crisis of globalization comes from 2008. Commercial exchanges have been declining. There was a contraction process that predated the virus. Now the virus has aggravated this situation. What is going to happen? Those who are creditors of capital will look for ways to increase the value of it at any cost. In the northern … Continue reading Will the coronavirus end capitalism?
By: Mary Louise Malig* [en español] After the massive mobilizations and climate strikes that took place in numerous cities around the planet, with an estimate of more than six million people participating, many are now turning their attention to the coming United Nations Framework on Climate Change Conference or COP 25 for short. COP 25 will be help in Santiago, Chile from December 2-13, 2019 … Continue reading Free Trade first: The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation will be convening governments and business to discuss trade and economic integration in Chile right before the Climate Summit
By: Mary Louise Malig, Global Forest Coalition After 20 years of negotiations, the EU-Mercosur Free Trade Agreement (FTA) is entering a crucial moment where it can come to a tragic end. To paraphrase a well-known saying, Mercosur is offering its kingdom for a plate of lentils, or in this case, its sovereignty for a plate of beef. Free trade agreements are not only about commodity … Continue reading The whole of Mercosur in exchange for a plate of beef
BY MICHAL ROZWORSKI. This story was first published at Jacobin. So much about the 2017 Labour election campaign has been heartening: the energy, the conviction, the full-throated embrace of remaking government in the service of the many. All of the main campaign pledges — from free tuition to thousands of new homes to a stronger National Health Service — will change where money and resources flow … Continue reading The Most Radical Aspect of Jeremy Corbyn’s Program? Democratizing the Economy
[Sharon Ede, December 2016, Complementary Currency Resource Center] How Relocalising Production With Not-For-Profit Business Models Helps Build Resilient and Prosperous Societies This Commons Transition Special Report was written by Sharon Ede, a sustainability ideas transmitter, writer and activist working in Adelaide, Australia. Ede is also a co-founder of the Post-Growth Institute, one of Commons Transition’s most esteemed Partner Projects. We feel that the Post-Growth Institute’s … Continue reading The Real Circular Economy
[Ulises Noyola Rodríguez, Alai, 18/10/2016] La caída de los precios de las materias primas evidencia la fragilidad de la relación económica entre China y América Latina que en la actualidad registra una importante desaceleración en las transacciones comerciales, situación de la cual Estados Unidos busca sacar ventaja a fin de reposicionarse en la región. El gobierno chino decidió apoyar la construcción de grandes obras de … Continue reading El reposicionamiento de Beijing en América Latina
[Patrick Bond, 14/10/2016, Goa, India] A Brazilian leader’s faux pas spoke volumes about the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) heads of state summit underway in Goa this weekend. The country’s foreign minister (and occasional presidential candidate) José Serra told an interviewer last month that the BRICS included Argentina. And as he stumbled while spelling out the acronym, Serra also had to be prompted to recall that South Africa … Continue reading The Wages of Sub-Imperial Assimilation: BRICS Fantasies and Unintended Revelations
Las organizaciones convocantes del III Encuentro ecosocialista internacional celebrado en Bilbao, los días 23, 24 y 25 de septiembre de 2016, CONSIDERAMOS: Que el capitalismo se ha desarrollado de espaldas y enfrentado con las dos dependencias básicas que posibilitan la vida humana. Ignora, en primer término que, como el resto de las especies vivas, obtenemos de la naturaleza lo que necesitamos para vivir y, en … Continue reading Manifiesto final del III Encuentro Ecosocialista Internacional
[François Houtart y Pablo Caller i Salas] Para analizar una situación, evidentemente compleja, vinculada con una coyuntura internacional caótica que escapa a la capacidad de acción de cualquier país, especialmente del Sur, se debe salir de explicaciones simples reduciendo los procesos sociales a un voluntarismo colectivo o personal, que desembocan sobre acusaciones mutuas, sin excluir la utilización de la violencia institucional o espontánea. Tampoco se … Continue reading El Impacto de la crisis mundial sobre el modelo posneoliberal en el Ecuador
[Lucy Hornby / Andrés Schipani, Milenio,19/01/2015] Nicolás Maduro, el presidente venezolano, anunció una inversión de 20 mil millones de dólares (mdd) procedente de China. Pero no dijo si era lo que buscaba: un rescate financiero de su más grande acreedor. La confusión habla mucho sobre cómo la desaceleración de la economía china y el desplome de los precios de las materias primas ponen a prueba … Continue reading ¿Llegó el fin del idilio China – América Latina?
[Arnaldo Pérez Guerra, Rebelión] El economista catalán Joan Martínez Alier visitó Chile para participar en el Congreso Latinoamericano de Ecología Política, que se desarrolló entre el 21 y el 24 de octubre en la Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo (FAU) de la Universidad de Chile. Allí se lanzó la edición chilena de su libro El ecologismo de los pobres, reeditado por Editorial Quimantú, en colaboración … Continue reading “Soy un economista arrepentido porque la economía se ha olvidado de la energía”
[Entrevista a Joan Martinéz Alier, Menorca, España, 09/07/2014] Es una de las voces más autorizadas sobre economía y ecología. No solo advierte de los retos y de los riesgos, sino también de cómo el medio ambiente y la naturaleza no se consideran a la hora de hablar de actividad económica, por la presión que crea el crecimiento sin fin. Su relación con Menorca ha sido … Continue reading Joan Martínez Alier: «Si la economía crece y la naturaleza decrece, hay una contradicción»
[United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs] The world economy continues to grow at a moderate and uneven pace, encumbered by both the legacies of the global financial crisis and a number of new challenges. The global growth is projected to strengthen in 2015-2016, to a pace of 3.1 per cent and 3.4 per cent, respectively, up from the estimated rate of 2.6 per cent in 2014. This … Continue reading LINK Global Economic Outlook 2015-2016
[Vandana Shiva] 1. Ecological Democracy – Democracy of all life We are all members of the Earth community. We all have the duty to protect the rights and welfare of all species and all people. No humans have the right to encroach on the ecological space of other species and other people, or treat them with cruelty and violence. 2. Intrinsic worth of all Species … Continue reading Earth Democracy: Ten Principles of Justice, Sustainability and Peace
[Walden Bello, lecture, 30 April 2014] Let me place my coming remarks in context, and the global context has among its key features the following: Long-term stagnation in the United States. Depression in Europe. Increasing gap in wealth in nearly all countries and globally: the richest 1% of the global population owns 40% of total assets, and the richest 10% accounts for 85%. Financialization has … Continue reading What Is to Be Done? The Six Pillars of Deglobalization
[Francois Houtart] Con el desarrollo de los BRICS, las relaciones Sur-Sur ayudan a crear un mundo multipolar, pero no cambian el modelo de desarrollo colectivo. De hecho este grupo de países se desarrollan al interior según el esquema capitalista y establecen con sus periferias, relaciones similares a los vínculos Norte- Sur existentes. El Ecuador, uno de los pocos países del Sur que adopto medidas pos-neo-liberales, no … Continue reading Cómo construir un nuevo modelo de desarrollo para la cooperación sur-sur
[Centro de Derechos Económicos y Sociales, agosto 2013(1)] Contrarrestar la pobreza en nuestro país no depende de la explotación del Yasuni – ITT, pues ésta es resultado de estructuras injustas de distribución del ingreso, que generan una economía altamente concentrada donde los mayores recursos producidos terminarán enriqueciendo a una élite pequeña de la población, al tiempo que la población mayoritaria verá mejorar sus condiciones de … Continue reading PLAN C: REDISTRIBUCIÓN DE LA RIQUEZA – YASUNÍ E INDÍGENAS AISLADOS
[Vandana Shiva, 2013] Limitless growth is the fantasy of economists, businesses and politicians. It is seen as a measure of progress. As a result, gross domestic product (GDP), which is supposed to measure the wealth of nations, has emerged as both the most powerful number and dominant concept in our times. However, economic growth hides the poverty it creates through the destruction of nature, which in … Continue reading How economic growth has become anti-life
[David Harvey – prologue of “Seventeen Contradictions and the End of Capitalism” (Profile Books, 2014)] Crises are essential to the reproduction of capitalism. It is in the course of crises that the instabilities of capitalism are confronted, reshaped and re-engineered to create a new version of what capitalism is about. Much gets torn down and laid waste to make way for the new. Once-productive landscapes … Continue reading The Crisis of Capitalism This Time Around
[David Korten] Economists debate whether the economy is recovering from the financial crash of 2008. Scientists debate whether Earth will recover from an economy that is destroying Earth’s capacity to support life. An unconscionable gap between rich and poor – between the profligate and the desperate – grows at an alarming rate. Economists assure us that faster economic growth will provide the technology and financial … Continue reading A New Story for a New Economy: To Find Our Human Place in a Living Universe
