Archive - Pandemic Capitalism

Inflation and the Anthropocene: a reply to Adam Tooze

If this really is the Anthropocene, why would we expect our economic models to still work as before?

Dec 15, 2023 •

October 2023

Material roots, the end of hegemony, the suppression of finance by nature

Environmental breakdown portends the end of hegemony in the world economy, and, with it, the end of the supra-secular decline in real interest rates.

Oct 22, 2023 •

July 2022

Economics for the Anthropocene

Ubiquitous, and worsening, environmental instability means we will have to throw out the anthropocentrism of economics.

Jul 20, 2022 •

March 2022

February 2022

Central banks as weapons: how the West learned from the eurozone crisis

Targeting of Russia's basic financial infrastructure is already proving effective. But this is a weapon honed in Europe over the last decade of crisis.

Feb 28, 2022 •

December 2021

Can the left survive covid?

There are no historic guarantees it will. Right now, the British left is consigning itself to irrelevance.

Dec 20, 2021 •

Working from home returns

The UK government's "Plan B" advises working from home where possible. But the shift to mass homeworking over the last two years has contributed to a…

Dec 13, 2021 •

Omicron, the Zero Covid fallacy, and the redivision of the world

Omicron is accelerating the construction of new borders and controls, between and within countries.

Dec 6, 2021 •

November 2021

The Omicron variant

Covid isn't going away, and the future for capitalism is one of low growth, high costs, and bigger governments.

Nov 28, 2021 •

Growth, inequality, and the future of capitalism

Continual growth has been our background belief about how the economy works for 150 years. Perhaps it is time to return to those thinkers who didn't…

Nov 21, 2021 •

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