Miércoles, 5 de abril de 2006 (Continuación)

By Andrew Glyn, an economics fellow at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and author of 'Capitalism Unleashed' (THE GUARDIAN, 05/04/06):

Apiece of conventional wisdom about the world dear to economists is that the share of national income going to workers stays pretty stable. Karl Marx disagreed; he argued that labour-saving capital investment would limit demand for labour, while also bankrupting small-scale producers, in agriculture for example. They would swell the labour supply, creating a permanent "reserve army of labour" that would prevent real wages growing as fast as labour productivity. Workers would thus spend an increasing proportion of working time producing profits for capitalists - a falling share for labour or a rising rate of exploitation, in Marx's terminology.…  Seguir leyendo »

Por David Alvarez Rivas, profesor asociado de la Universidad Complutense y presidente de la Coordinadora de ONG para el Desarrollo-España (EL MUNDO, 05/04/06):

Somos la primera generación que puede erradicar la pobreza». Esta frase, acuñada en el seno de Naciones Unidas y que se ha convertido en el lema de las organizaciones internacionales de desarrollo en los últimos dos años, no es una afirmación retórica. Somos la primera generación que tiene los recursos financieros y tecnológicos para lograrlo, que ha invertido en las dos últimas aventuras espaciales la cantidad necesaria para que casi 1.100 millones de personas viesen reducida su pobreza extrema.…  Seguir leyendo »

By Jonathan Freedland (THE GUARDIAN, 05/04/06):

What would the sober-minded Washington press corps make of the treatment their secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice, and her British counterpart, Jack Straw, have received in the British press this last week? Where US newspapers favour long disquisitions on the state of geopolitics and the balance of forces in the Gulf, the British papers have been getting steamed up over the Jack and Condi love-in.

Several, including the Guardian, ran photo love stories - with speech bubbles imagining their private thoughts and secret longings. Here was yesterday's offering from the Sun, on hearing that America's top diplomat had made the foreign secretary a most generous offer while the two were airborne.…  Seguir leyendo »