“Don’t compromise,” he told me, “you start compromising on a small thing and soon you are one of them.”
Thwas Thandika — he was a mentor and an inspiration to many of us.
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/thandika-mkandawire-development-economics/
Thwas Thandika — he was a mentor and an inspiration to many of us.
jacobinmag.com/2020/04/thandika-mkandawire-development-economics/
Jacobinmag
We Just Lost a Giant of Development Economics
When the world was shifting toward neoliberalism, blind to shocking inequalities, Thandika Mkandawire (1940–2020) bravely stood up for the welfare state. We should remember him as a brilliant economist and committed egalitarian.
Global inequality is now so high that the global Gini coefficient, which measures the level of inequality across the world, is about the same as South Africa’s — one of the most unequal societies on the planet.
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2020 will be the first year of falling global GDP since WWII. And it was only the final years of WWII/aftermath when output fell.
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The market alone cannot meet our needs, nor can the state. Both, by rooting out attachment, help fuel the alienation, rage and anomie that breeds extremism. Over the past 200 years, one element has been conspicuously absent from the dominant ideologies, something that is neither market nor state: the commons.
https://evonomics.com/reviving-commons-one-possible-route-social-transformation/
https://evonomics.com/reviving-commons-one-possible-route-social-transformation/
Evonomics
Why Common Ownership Is a Route to Social Transformation - Evonomics
The case for despair is made. Now let’s start to get out of the mess we’re in