Michael Roberts

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Abundance has been attracting attention and debate among mainstream economists and politicians. But the book directs its sights towards planning regulations as the obstacle to abundance, not to the real blockages imposed by vested interests, argues Michael Roberts.

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In this interview with Federico Fuentes, Marxist economist Michael Roberts explains the recent raft of tariffs announced by United States President Donald Trump and how they fit into Trump’s broader project to reassert US global hegemony.

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Author, economist and political activist Michael Roberts spoke to Green Left’s Federico Fuentes about the realities of imperialism today and how much — or how little — has changed since Vladimir Lenin wrote his book on the subject.

Capital in the Anthropocene

Marxist economist Michael Roberts reviews Kohei Saito's forthcoming book.