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Brown bib for the playboy

The essay is surfing the troubled waters of contemporary Russian culture, teaching us the "totalitarian" approach, also in the fields of film and music that faces a young system critical journal in Russia day by day. We should not be surprised if parallels can be made to the situation in Hungary.

The original article: Илья Смирнов: Коричневый слюнявчик для мальчика-мажора. №5 журнал «Скепсис» 2008.

Financial and monetary issues as the crisis unfolds

A group of experts of the Economists for Peace and Security and the Initiative for Rethinking the Economy met again in Paris to discuss financial and monetary issues. Contrary to the mainstream, they were pessimistic that there would be sustained economic recovery and a return of high employment. The financial system preceding the crisis should not be restored and governments should not pursue exit strategies that permit a return to the status quo. Rather, the solution requires continuous state initiatives and financial structures serving public interests.

Originally published az Public Policy Brief No. 103, 2009 of the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College.

Crisis and employment

According to the author, the global crisis in employment is finally the result of the geopolitically biased and historically and socially unjust relationship between labour and capital. The situation is not new at all maybe some of its aspects are renewed that did not occur before. The article not simply examines the negative effects generated by the production crisis but also the global world system that is responsible for the production crisis.

Crafting the neoliberal state – Workfare, prisonfare and social insecurity

Against the marginalised, the neoliberal state uses both traditional negligence – They are responsible for their fate thus no intervention is needed – and punishing discipline against this group, in cases even tangible, direct and brutal oppression.

The article is a modified and shortened version of the theoratical summary of the book of the author Loic Wacquant: Punishing the Poor: The Neoliberal Government of Social Insecurity. Durham, Duke University Press 2009.