Politics / Economics
Articles about Economics, ordered by date. 
Fight debt: altogether now!
Debt is used to break nations. But resistance is fertile – and the North could learn a few lessons from the South, argues Nick Dearden.
Debt, austerity, devastation: it’s Europe’s turn
The austerity prescription fattens the creditors and punishes the innocent. Susan George laments a leadership subservient to the desires of finance.
Debt – The Facts
At any given time countries both owe debts and have them owing to them. Who owes what and what's the bigger crisis – foreign or domestic debt.
Let us prey
Vulture funds buy up ‘bad’ debt owed by countries in distress and aggressively sue for full payment, plus compound interest.
Debt – a global scam
The standard response to the current financial crisis has been to punish the presumed debtors. Are the creditors blameless, then? asks Dinyar Godrej.
Argument: Can shopping be a form of activism?
Neal Lawson and Ruth Potts, both campaigners and writers, go head-to-head.
Letters
Housing, prostitution, violence and the pursuit of economic growth. Praise, blame and all the points in between? Give us your feedback.
Facing the vultures
Argentina is not in the habit of being cowed by international pressure and financial big-hitters – or by proponents of austerity. Vanessa Baird reports.
Who needs a boss?
Vanessa Baird reports on how Argentinean workers took over failing and bankrupt enterprises – and have kept them going.
Spain’s brain drain
Dan Hancox on the skilled young people who, after thirty years of Spanish democracy, are finding their options increasingly limited.
'They told us we couldn't count'
In Indonesia, self-help is transforming the lives of rural women. Irfan Kortschak talks to one co-op member.
Can co-operatives crowd out capitalism?
Wayne Ellwood argues that co-ops – democratic, community-focused – offer an egalitarian way out of our current mess.
Country profile: Zambia
Mary Namakando digs out facts and ratings on one of Southern Africa's most politically stable countries and probes President Sata's grapple with corruption.
What the squid did next
They say that US investment bank Goldman Sachs runs the world. Kenneth Haar investigates just how it's wrapping its tentacles around Europe.
A roadmap for a fair economy
Here's how to get from where we are to where we want to be...
Put equality first
Both inequality and economic instability are growing. How deep does the connection go? wonders Vanessa Baird.
VIDEO: ‘The banks have taken over democracy’
New Internationalist editor Vanessa Baird dissects the financial crisis at Occupy London’s Tent City University.
The Great Rebellion
The Great Recession may have stunned the Minority World, but the Majority World has survived more or less unscathed. David Ransom investigates why, and traces the outlines of a future that might just be worth having.
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