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Trump könnte die Entwicklungsfinanzierung blockieren. Doch es gibt andere Wege, sie zu sichern.

Die UN-Resolution gegen Iran offenbart die Doppelstandards des Nordens – die Kosten der Instabilität trägt der Globalen Süden.

Dr. Jayati Ghosh will deliver the annual Robert Heilbroner Memorial Lecture at The New School with an ambitious and critical analysis that honors Heilbroner’s own breadth and depth: Power, Control, and Democracy in the 21st Century.In her lecture, Dr. Ghosh (Professor of Economics, UMass Amherst) will argue we are witnessing a new mutation of capitalism—one in which monopoly power and state control generate economic rents so vast that their gravitational pull has profound implications. This "rent-mutant" capitalism fosters stagnating innovation, sluggish growth, rising inequality, and the erosion of democratic political rights. She distinguishes this phenomenon from “rentier capitalism,” resisting its reduction to a mere extension of the mainstream concept of “rent-seeking behavior.” Drawing on her considerable scholarship, Professor Ghosh will illustrate the distinctions between rentier capital, rent-seeking behavior, and the emergent form of capitalism she terms rent-mutation. Professor Ghosh will explore how recent shifts in state regulatory frameworks and the rise of “excess profits”—which, in reality, function as rents—are profoundly distorting and reshaping society.

Our roadmap has been shaped by experts across the world. We call on political leaders at all levels to use it, says Olivier De Schutter and others

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