Marc Batko: 4 books

The financial sector should be shriveled and the public sector expanded. The myths of self-healing markets, efficient financial markets, nature as a free good, external and sink, infinite growth in a finite world, quantitative growth and the exact sciences eclipsing qualitative growth and the human...

Poverty is not a natural phenomenon but the resxult of misguided politcial decision.  Professor Franz Segbers understands capitalism as a religion with money and competition  as fetishes.  Capitalism is not monolithic but has varieties and responds to social pressure.

The time is right for alternative economics, reducing working hours, redefining state and market and re-envisioning work, security, health and strength. More and more work is done by fewer and fewer people. In Germany, the GDP rose 300% in 50 years with 20% fewer workers. Mainstream neoliberal...

Poverty is returning. That must be our first discovery when we speak about poverty in Germany. Once it was fought and became a marginal problem. Why is it returning? For a long while, there was the firm belief that life goes forward and we live in an elevator society. Our children will be better off....