2021: Year of living dangerously?
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Goodbye 2020, but unfortunately, not good riddance, as we all have to live with its legacy. It has been...
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Intellectual property monopolies block vaccine access
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: Just before the World Health Assembly (WHA), an 18 May open letter by...
Vision 2020 betrayed: Whither Malaysia?
Jomo K S In three weeks, the year 2020 will end. Incredibly, it has been a year largely devoid of any serious discussion of Vision 2020,...
Urgently needed deficit financing no excuse for more fiscal abuse
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn,...
Unconventional measures for extraordinary times no excuse for more abuse
Jomo K. S. Fiscal and monetary measures needed to fight the economic downturn, due to the COVID-19 pandemic and policy response measures,...
Will the new fiscal crises improve international tax cooperation?
Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY & KUALA LUMPUR: COVID-19 recessions have hit most countries, requiring massive fiscal...
World Bank urges governments to guarantee private profits
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: The World Bank has been leading other multilateral development banks...
COVID-19 compounding inequalities
Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY: The United Nations’ renamed World Social Report 2020 (WSR 2020) argued...
Economic trends and what’s important in life
Anis Chowdhury with Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR: US third quarter GDP numbers released two weeks ago delighted stock...
Finance Covid-19 Relief and Recovery, Not Debt Buybacks
The need to strengthen fiscal measures for adequate and appropriate relief and recovery measures.
Limited liability: Profit without responsibility
Limited liability protection has encouraged irresponsibility, causing much harm while generating profits without responsibility
Limited liability: Profit without responsibility
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Limited liability protection for shareholders in joint stock companies was introduced to encourage...
Milton Friedman versus stakeholder capitalism
Jomo Kwame Sundaram KUALA LUMPUR: Milton Friedman was arguably the most influential economist of the second half of the 20th century,...
Shareholder capitalism’s ugly legacy
Shareholder capitalism’s consequences haunt the world and threaten humanity with stagnation and self-destruction.
‘Populist’ macroeconomic policy
Vladimir Popov, Jomo Kwame Sundaram BERLIN, KUALA LUMPUR: ‘Ethno-populism’ has emerged and spread in recent decades in response to the...
Myths of soft budget constraints
In recent decades, many contemporary macroeconomic and financial problems have been blamed on ‘soft budget constraints’.