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Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, are pushing hard to get them…
Martin Hart-Landsberg
Martin Hart-Landsberg is Professor Emeritus of Economics at Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon. His writings on globalization and the political economy of East Asia have been translated into Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Turkish, and Norwegian. He is the chair of Portland Rising, a committee of Portland Jobs with Justice, and the chair of the Oregon chapter of the National Writers Union. He maintains a blog Reports from the Economic Front.
Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever-larger data…
Economist Martin Hart-Landsberg underscores the importance of planning for a just transition and transformation of socio-economic relations. Hart-Landsberg examines FDR’s Defense Production…
We are in real trouble. Global carbon dioxide emissions (the main cause of global warming) continue to rise, hitting a new high…
According to an Economic Policy Institute report, between 28 and 47 percent of U.S. private sector workers are subject to noncompete agreements
Results like this show just how important it is for us to work to create space for community conversations that are informed by accurate information on the extent and aims of US militarism and its enormous political, social, economic and ecological costs for the great majority of working people
If we are to build support for an alternative to capitalism we need clarity on the causes and consequences of the contemporary…
This long post examines the causes of and offers a response to the dangerous escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula. While…
Contemporary capitalism, driven by the competitive pursuit of private profit, tends to produce a stream of innovative goods and services. Of course…
Congress has finally agreed on a deficit reduction plan that President Obama supports. As a result, the debt ceiling is being lifted, which means…