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Showing posts with label Gross Domestic Product. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gross Domestic Product. Show all posts
Wednesday, November 11, 2026

Wage share falls (1995)

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From the November 1995 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialists do not enjoy being the bringer of bad tidings, though it is a familiar en...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The state of the state’s finances (2025)

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From the August 2025 issue of the Socialist Standard Politicians love talking big numbers: ‘We’re spending £5 million to stop The Thing.’ O...
Friday, November 17, 2023

Cooking the Books: The really big slump (2020)

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The Cooking the Books column from the November 2020 issue of the Socialist Standard We know that capitalist production moves in ever-repeat...
Friday, November 10, 2023

Cooking the Books: Statistical errors (2006)

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The Cooking the Books column from the November 2006 issue of the Socialist Standard There is a silly argument going on at the moment betwee...
Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Cooking the Books: What is productivity? (2023)

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The Cooking the Books column from the November 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘Productivity — the amount we produce per worker or per ...
Friday, March 17, 2023

Cooking the Books: Per capita (2023)

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The Cooking the Books Column from the February 2023 issue of the Socialist Standard At the beginning of December the media reported that P...
Thursday, December 1, 2022

Cooking the Books: Profits, profits, and profits (2022)

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The Cooking the Books column from the November 2022 issue of the Socialist Standard ‘A Labour government’s priorities would be “growth, gro...
Monday, May 23, 2022

Cooking the Books: Debts and Doubts (2011)

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The Cooking the Books column from the August 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard The public sector union UNISON has provided its activists...
Thursday, June 10, 2021

Cooking the Books: Economic cycling (2007)

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The Cooking the Books column from the June 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard Gordon Brown, as Chancellor, laid down a “golden rule” that...
Friday, April 30, 2021

Cooking the Books: A stroke of the pen (2007)

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The Cooking the Books column from the April 2007 issue of the Socialist Standard The Office for National Statistics (ONS) is to revise the ...
Monday, April 12, 2021

Biodiversity loss and the capitalist economy (2021)

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From the April 2021 issue of the Socialist Standard   The Dasgupta review: 600 pages on how capitalism destroys nature, with no mention of c...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Cooking the Books: Lies, damned lies, and statistics (2005)

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The Cooking The Books column from the March 2005 issue of the Socialist Standard Marx argued that by his day economics had declined from a ...
Sunday, June 14, 2020

Cooking the Books: No growth area (2009)

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The Cooking the Books column from the June 2009 issue of the Socialist Standard On Wednesday 22 April, Alistair Darling, the Chancel...
Sunday, January 19, 2020

Measuring general wellbeing – how and why? (2011)

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From the January 2011 issue of the Socialist Standard Capitalism sells GNP and some of its supporters now want to measure GWB. Sociali...
Monday, January 7, 2019

After Greece, Italy? (2019)

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From the January 2019 issue of the Socialist Standard On 23 October the European Commission asked the Italian government to revisit ...
Friday, December 28, 2018

Material World: Welcome if You’re Rich (2018)

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The Material World Column from the May 2018 issue of the Socialist Standard Socialists have decried the erection of fences and the b...
Wednesday, December 12, 2018

Cooking the Books: Clueless (2012)

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The Cooking the Books column from the January 2012 issue of the Socialist Standard One of the first things George Osborne did on bec...