Work for all is the goal society must have. Brilliant text on the benefits of full employment and its positive side effects. Niklas Blomqvist questions the idea that the market itself can create full employment. For example, Blomqvist points out that attempts to follow this path in the last thirty years have not produced the desired results. He emphasizes that work for…
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He who is in debt is not free - the untrue myth about Göran Persson and his heroic glory
"He who is in debt is not free." Göran Persson's trip to New York to ask for a loan and implement cutbacks has become a destructive and untrue myth in Swedish politics. But the story about the crisis in the 1990s and the need for budget consolidation is not correct. This is written by researchers Niklas Altermark, Max Jerneck and Elisabeth...
Interest rate increases do not bite today's profit-seeking inflation
Interest rate increases do not bite profit-driven inflation. Big capital exploits its strength. Many companies have a monopoly position. They use this to push prices up faster than wages. This is how Big Capital exploits the crisis after Ukraine and the bottleneck effects after Corona. There are now bottlenecks on e.g. economically important semiconductors and other. This means that for the production of certain goods it does not…
The euro would undermine Sweden's independence and welfare
With the Euro, Sweden is no longer fully a state. We can then no longer be able to create money to strengthen industrial production. Now there are forces that want to use crises such as the Corona pandemic and the war in Ukraine to get us into the euro cooperation EMU. This is advocated, among other things, by venture capitalist Christer Gardell in Dagens…
"Survival" - Book for libertarian left-wing social democracy
Why did welfare in Sweden begin to be dismantled from the 70s? Can everyone get a job? How do we give people housing? The climate - how do we save it? Feel good in a challenging society, okay? The newly published book "Survival - for society and the people" wants to spark discussion about society and life. Read the review by Lars Gahrn,…
Major victories for popular opposition to TTIP and TPP
The two free trade agreements, which in different parts of the world want common standards for the production of goods and services and the possibility for companies to sue states in private courts in case of threats of reduced profit prospects for foreign investors, have faced serious opposition in the EU and the US. In the EU, the European Parliament voted to postpone a decision on TTIP on…
Keynesianism necessary to prevent disaster
A reintroduction of government Keynesianism with a focus on full employment is necessary to prevent a combined depression and deflation.
Crises of stupidity – the recession in Sweden and the world in 2012
This will be an overall and connecting article. In any case, since 2006 we have mostly had a recession. I believe this in Sweden and many other countries is due to not investing in the public sector and creating jobs for everyone.