YSI Event – Theoretical Foundations of Economic Development: a Classical Reappraisal
The year 2020 involves by coincidence a set of celebrations about great critically oriented economists: 60 years of Sr
The Real History of Imperialism: A Comment by James Parisot on Recent Debates
By James Parisot, The continuing debate over contemporary imperialism triggered by John Smith’s criticisms of David
RIP, Samir Amin (1931-2018)
It is with a heavy heart that I announce that the pioneering political economist Samir Amin has passed. May he Rest In Pow
New Book: Extracting Profit – Imperialism, Neoliberalism and the New Scramble for Africa
by Lee Wengraf. From Haymarket Books: A piercing historical explanation of poverty and inequality in African societi
New Book: Global Inequalities in World-Systems Perspective
Edited by Manuela Boatca, Andrea Komlosy, & Hans-Heinrich Nolte. From Routledge: During its 500-year history, t
New Book: The Class Struggle in Latin America – Making History Today
By James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer. From Routledge: The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses
New Book: Playing with Fire – Deepened Financial Integration and Changing Vulnerabilities of the Global South
By Yilmaz Akyüz. From Oxford University Press: Starting in the early 1990s many emerging and developing economies (ED
PEWS 2018 Annual Conference: Call for papers
The Theme of the 42nd Annual Conference will be “Business Cycles in the Modern World System: Past, Present and Future.”
New Book: Why Latin American Nations Fail – Development Strategies in the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Esteban Pérez Caldentey & Matías Vernengo. From UC Press: Economic and social development is a major top
Dialogues on Development: On Dependency theory
Is it time for dependency theory to make a comeback? Its central idea is that developed (”core”) countries benefit from
A Reconsideration of World-Systems Analysis/Dependency Theory
By David M. Fields, Within the extensive literature on globalization it has been consistently theorized that given hi
New book by Utsa and Prabhat Patnaik: A Theory of Imperialism
From Columbia University Press: In A Theory of Imperialism, economists Utsa Patnaik and Prabhat Patnaik present a new
YSI Workshop @ 2016 ECLAC Summer School on Latin American Economies
The YSI Latin America Working Group is hosting a workshop at the ECLAC/UN Summer School on Latin American economies. Th