Tell Priti Patel: Stop your attack on journalistic freedom
Journalists who share leaks of official information should not face life imprisonment for doing their job
Fred Block is Research Professor of Sociology at the University of California in Davis. He is also President of the Center for Engaged Scholarship (cescholar.org). His book with Matthew R. Keller, is State of Innovation: The U.S. Government's Role in Technology Development. His most recent book, with Margaret Somers, is The Power of Market Fundamentalism: Karl Polanyi's Critique (Harvard University Press).
-
Published in: HomeKarl Polanyi and twenty-first century socialismPolanyi’s views were the exact opposite of his contemporary, Joseph Schumpeter, who famously defined democracy as...
-
Published in: TransformationIs cruelty the key to prosperity?According to many politicians, removing benefits is necessary to compel the unemployed to work even if their...