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A UK Guardian editorial last week (November 3, 2026) – The Guardian view on Labour’s growth obsession: a different economics is possible – challenges the dominant obsession with achieving ever faster levels of GDP growth that, in part, is linked to the fictions advanced about fiscal capacity – viz, nations must have growth to generate…

Last week, the RBA hiked interest rates for the fifth time this year claiming that there were excess demand pressures in the economy and that unemployment had to rise further to bring demand back into line with supply. They talk about the information they get from their so-called ‘liaison’ groups but don’t disclose further information…

This weekly report will provide some insights into life for a westerner (me) who is working for an extended period at Kyoto University in Japan but who over the years of working here has increasingly began to understand the language and local cultural traditions. This is my last report from Kyoto, Japan for 2026. My…

One of the unsurprising but disturbing results of my enquiry into neoliberalism in Japan is the way the so-called ‘progressive’ side of politics has embraced the main tenets of neoliberalism. For a Westerner, Japanese politics is somewhat confounding and to understand what is going on, one must abandon the typical Left=Progressive/Right=Conservative dichotomy. In Japan, the…

On Thursday, October 29, 2026, I will be giving a presentation in Tokyo. The title of the seminar is: “The Need for and Feasibility of a ‘High-Pressure Economy: Determining Appropriate Levels of Investment in Light of Construction Sector Capacity'”. Read on for the details of how you can join via the live stream. The seminar…