Gerald Epstein, Political Economy Research Institute, and Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst): Financialization of the economy has been developing since the late 19th century and is now at historic Levels
Posts tagged ‘debt resistance’
Financialization and the World Economy
by n0madic, posted on Sunday, September 30th, 2012 at 7:36 pmRoundtable: After 1 Year, OWS Gives Voice to Resistance of Mass Debt and Widening Inequality
by n0madic, posted on Monday, September 17th, 2012 at 8:53 pmfrom Democracy Now!
The Occupy Wall Street movement is largely credited for reframing the national dialogue on economic inequality and popularizing the phrase: “We are the 99 percent.” We host a roundtable with Frances Fox Piven, an author and professor at City University of New York who has studied social movements for decades; Nathan Schneider, editor of the blog Waging Nonviolence, which has extensively covered the Occupy movement; and Suzanne Collado, an organizer with Occupy Wall Street since its inception and member of the group “Strike Debt,” an effort to organize a mass upsurge of debt resistance.
