Michael Hudson

Distinguished Research Professor of Economics at University of Missouri

Professor Hudson is the author of Killing the Host: How Financial Parasites and Debt Bondage Destroy the Global Economy, and most recently, J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri (Kansas City) and at Peking University in Beijing. His Super-Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire has just been translated into German, after its appearance in Chinese, Japanese and Spanish. His website is michael-hudson.com.

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VoxEU Column

Post-Corona balanced budget fiscal stimulus: The case for shifting taxes onto land

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  • COVID-19
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  • Taxation
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VoxEU Column

Some ways to introduce a modern debt Jubilee

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  • Poverty and Income Inequality
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  • Taxation
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  • Welfare state and social Europe