Debt and poverty
11 January 2009 by Eric Toussaint
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is a historian and political scientist who completed his Ph.D. at the universities of Paris VIII and Liège, is the spokesperson of the CADTM International, and sits on the Scientific Council of ATTAC France.
He is the author of Greece 2015: there was an alternative. London: Resistance Books / IIRE / CADTM, 2020 , Debt System (Haymarket books, Chicago, 2019), Bankocracy (2015); The Life and Crimes of an Exemplary Man (2014); Glance in the Rear View Mirror. Neoliberal Ideology From its Origins to the Present, Haymarket books, Chicago, 2012, etc.
See his bibliography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89ric_Toussaint
He co-authored World debt figures 2015 with Pierre Gottiniaux, Daniel Munevar and Antonio Sanabria (2015); and with Damien Millet Debt, the IMF, and the World Bank: Sixty Questions, Sixty Answers, Monthly Review Books, New York, 2010. He was the scientific coordinator of the Greek Truth Commission on Public Debt from April 2015 to November 2015.
Other articles in English by Eric Toussaint (621)
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Chile: 50 years after the disgrace Neoliberalism at gun point
7 September, by Eric Toussaint , Roberto González Amador
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Éric Toussaint: “There are not enough leaders ready to stand up to debt creditors.”
1 September, by Eric Toussaint , Jorge Muracciole
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Resisting the Debt System
10 August, by Eric Toussaint , Ashley Smith
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Resisting the shock doctrine
15 July, by Eric Toussaint , Sushovan Dhar , Yuliya Yurchenko
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Economists of the world say yes to the Yasuní National Park in Ecuador
13 July, by Eric Toussaint , Alberto Acosta , Pierre Salama , Joan Martínez Alier , Wilma Salgado , Rosa Sueiro , Aleida Azamar
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The World Bank A Critical History
3 July, by Eric Toussaint
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Disgust and revulsion : double standards for human lives
22 June, by Eric Toussaint
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Deeper than ever, the crisis leaves capitalism out of breath
20 June, by Eric Toussaint
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Does the US Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation have enough resources to deal with a major banking crisis? And what about Europe?
14 June, by Eric Toussaint
When President Joe Biden says that the US never denounced any debt obligation it’s a lie to convince people that there is no alternative to a bad bi-partisan agreement
Debt ceiling: Radio Silence Concerning United States President Franklin Roosevelt’s Repudiation of Debts28 May, by Eric Toussaint
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Deeper than ever, the crisis leaves capitalism out of breath
20 June - Eric Toussaint -
Rates up, economy down
5 May - Michael Roberts -
A multipolar world and the dollar
24 April - Michael Roberts -
Banks on the Brink? The Origins, Nature, and Trajectory of the Crisis
19 April - Ashley Smith, Michael Roberts -
Well founded pessimism
17 April - Michael Roberts
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We still need a debt jubilee: 25 years on from the Birmingham human chain
19 May - Tim Jones -
ABC of Debt System
6 March - Eric Toussaint -
Violence against women*: a systemic issue
30 November 2022 - CADTM International -
The task of solidarity implies a struggle for the complete cancellation of the Third World debt
22 July 2022 - Ernest Mandel -
Rethinking alternatives to counter the surge of debts to be repaid
22 February 2022 - Eric Toussaint
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