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Oikonomía: Economía de "andar por casa" Economía Dickensiana A diferencia de otros críticos sociales de su época como John Ruskin o Thomas Carlyle, Charles Dickens no escribió ningún texto explícitamente dedicado a la economía de la Revolución Industrial y sus efectos. No obstante, y a la luz de lo que se cuenta en muchas de sus novelas reflejando lo cruda que fue la vida para las clases trabajadoras en la Inglaterra de mediados del siglo XIX, no creo que sea inadecuado denominar economía dickensiana a aquella situación que se da cuando el incremento en el acervo de bienes puestos a disposición de una sociedad gracias a los avances técnicos y organizativos se distribuye tan desigualmente que la mayoría de la población asiste inerme durante largos periodos al fenómeno de que todas o la mayor parte de esas ganancias acaban yendo a manos de los menos, por lo que sus condiciones de vida no crecen de modo perceptible o incluso se deterioran.
Leer más El alma de los pobres (publicado con mínimas modificaciones en EL PAÍS, 2/1/2014) Ludwig von Mises Institute - Homepage. Zero hedge | on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero. Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion | zero hedge. Submitted by David DeGraw from Amped Status Guest Post: Analysis of the Global Insurrection Against Neo-Liberal Economic Domination and the Coming American Rebellion – We Are Egypt [Revolution Roundup #3] If you think what’s happening in Egypt won’t happen within the United States, you’ve been watching too much TV. The statistics speak for themselves. In previous Revolution Roundups, before we were knocked offline, we featured mass protests by the people of Ireland, Italy, Britain, Austria, Greece, France and Portugal, as the Global Insurrection contagion spread throughout Europe.
The connection between this latest round of uprisings and the prior protests throughout Europe is one the mainstream media is not making. Whether national populations realize it or not, these uprisings are against systemic global economic policies that are strategically designed to exploit the working class, reduce living standards, increase personal debt and create severe inequalities of wealth. Poverty.
Libya Now, Iran Then: How Close Are We to 1979? Today, the UK’s Telegraphis reporting that British government drones in Whitehall are figuring out the legal means to seize Muammar al-Gaddafi’s assets in Britain, which are said to total some £20 billion. Notice that’s pounds sterling—the equivalent of US$32 billion: Enough cash to plug up California’s and New York State’s deficits, and still have enough left over for a very respectable weekend at The Palms in Las Vegas. That these assets are going to be seized is, according to the story, a done deal: The only issue seems to be the legal means by which to do so— —which means that the British government isn’t worried about pissing off Gaddafi— —which means that Gaddafi’s days in power are numbered: Whitehall would never dare seize his UK assets, unless they were sure that Gaddafi won’t be around to exact revenge or retribution.
After all, the Brits let the Lockerbie Bomber go in 2009, in order to shore up relations with Gaddafi. An Oil Shock is nothing to take lightly. Press TV-On the Edge with Max Keiser-Global Banking Cartel-08-10-2010 (Part 2) Repression and Poverty Underpin the Uprising in Egypt. This is a rush transcript. Copy may not be in its final form. AMY GOODMAN: As we continue our special coverage of the mass protests in Egypt, we’re joined in Washington, D.C., by Samer Shehata to talk about how the Obama administration is responding to the protests.
He is a professor, assistant professor of Arab politics at Georgetown University. His most recent book is Shop Floor Culture and Politics in Egypt. Your observations of this massive popular rebellion in your country, in Egypt, Professor? SAMER SHEHATA: Yes. There are also economic reasons that are underpinning these protests. And President Mubarak, I think it should not be mistaken, is a dictator. AMY GOODMAN: Can you talk about how economics — you’re a specialist in labor in Egypt. SAMER SHEHATA: Well, that’s certainly correct. You mentioned the percentage of people under poverty. But what all of that masked, what all of that masked, was what was going on at the level of real people and ordinary lives. SAMER SHEHATA: Yes. Egypt's unrest may have roots in food prices, U.S. Fed policy. WASHINGTON — Economists and experts in food security have warned repeatedly in recent years that an unbridled rise in food prices could trigger the very kind of explosion of citizen anger that's now threatening to topple the Egyptian government.
Such anger is likely to rise elsewhere, too. A large nation with lots of desert, Egypt must import more than half of its food supply. Since 2008, there's been sporadic unrest there as the cost of staples, from bread to fruits to vegetables, has gone up steadily. One of those warning about the food prices was Hamdi Abdel-Azim, an economist and former president at the Sadat Academy for Social Sciences in Cairo. "If the rise in food costs persists, there will be an explosion of popular anger against the government," he told the IPS Inter Press Service in mid-November. A few weeks earlier, political opponents of President Hosni Mubarak had rallied to protest rising prices and to demand price ceilings on products to protect Egypt's poor.
The CIA on Egypt's Economy, Financial Deregulation and Protest - Thoughts - Nomi Prins. The ongoing demonstrations in Egypt are as much, if not more, about the mass deterioration of economic conditions and the harsh result of years of financial deregulation, than the political ideology that some of the media seems more focused on. Plus, as Mark Engler cross-posted on Alternet and Dissent yesterday, the notion that the protests in Cairo are 'spontaneous uprisings' misses the mark.
As he eloquently wrote, "there are extraordinary moments when public demonstrations take on a mass character and people who would otherwise not have dreamed of taking part in an uprising rush onto the streets. But these protests are typically built upon years of organizing and preparation on the part of social movements. " According to the CIA's World Fact-book depiction of Egypt's economy, "Cairo from 2004 to 2008 aggressively pursued economic reforms to attract foreign investment and facilitate GDP growth.
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