Candidates calls for change to economy rhetoric
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created 7 days ago by
kuros,
broadcast date:2008-05-05)
Candidates calls for change to economy rhetoric
Leo Panitch interview part 2: No US candidate talking about democratizing economy
There is no real public discussion either in the media or by presidential candidates to make the changes necessary to democratize the economy. We have seen a general move to an increasingly regressive tax system in the past 30 or 40 years in the US and Europe. Public boards should make corporations and banks more accountable.
Leo Panitch is the Canada Research Chair in Comparative Political Economy and a Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University in Toronto. Panitch is also the author of Global Capitalism and American Empire.