Letter and reply on Michael Roberts’ review of Glyn's Capitalism unleashed - finance, globalization, and welfare A reader has objected to some of Michael Roberts’ criticisms of Andrew Glyn’s latest book. Among others it deals with the question of whether profit rates in the post-war period were affected by wage increases. Roberts replies showing that the fundamental reason for the decline was the same as that stated by Marx.
“Capitalism unleashed – finance, globalisation and welfare” In his new book, Capitalism Unleashed, Andrew Glyn attempts to explain how capitalism moved from the crisis of the 1970s to recovery in the 1980s and 1990s. However, although full of interesting information, the book fails to provide an overall analysis and misses some essential aspects of Marxist theory.
Milton Friedman – economic witch doctor of capitalism Milton Friedman died on 16 November aged 94 years. He was one of the foremost bourgeois economists of the 20th century. His reputation as a monetarist theoretician and advisor to the likes of Thatcher, Reagan and Pinochet as these attacked all the gains of the working class was well earned.
