We present a model of technologically interconnected countries that benefit and potentially contribute to advances in the world technology frontier. Greater inequality between successful and unsuccessful entrepreneurs increases entrepreneurial effort and a country’s contribution to that frontier. Under plausible assumptions, the world equilibrium is asymmetric, involving different economic inst...

Rob Albritton’s Let Them Eat Junk: How Capitalism Creates Hunger and Obesity (2009), published by Arbeiter Ring Press in Canada, and Pluto Press in the UK, offers a welcome and urgently needed analysis of “how the profit fixation of capital has led us deeply into a dangerously unsustainable system of food provision, a system that totally fails when it comes to distributive justice and to human ...

Since 2020 the modern world has been witnessing a complex crisis, which is essentially medical crisis (the COVID-19 pandemic) within structural economic crisis. In addition to current nexus of risk stressors, such as anthropogenic climate biodiversity loss, financialization and income inequality, all global cross-cutting by their very nature, in last period biorisk growing dramatically. The pan...