New Book: The Power of Finance – Financialization and the Real Economy

February 4, 2020

Category: Capitalism, fictitious capital, Finance, Financial Crisis, financialization, Malcolm Sawyer

By Malcolm Sawyer. From Agenda Publishing: Finance has long been an integral part of the capitalist economy, yet since

New book: The Political Economy of Central Banking – Contested Control and the Power of Finance

October 17, 2019

Category: Central Banking, Finance, Gerald Epstein, Monetary Policy, Money, Money and Banking, PERI

by Gerald Epstein. From Edward Elgar: Central banks are among the most powerful government economic institutions in t

New Book: All Fall Down – Debt, Deregulation and Financial Crises

November 15, 2018

Category: Credit, crisis, Debt, Deregulation, Finance, Financial Crisis, Monetary Policy, Money, Money and Banking

By Jane D’Arista. From Edward Elgar: All Fall Down traces the ways in which changes in financial structure and regulati

Call for papers on finance & power for Transnational Institute (TNI) State of Power 2019

July 26, 2018

Category: Finance, Globalization, International Finance, International Political Economy, Power, Transnational Institute, world economy, World-System

TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch in 2012, become a must-see reference point for citizens, a

Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?

May 21, 2018

Category: Capitalism, Democracy, European Union, Finance, world economy, Yanis Varoufakis

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ&w=640&h=360] Economist and fierce EU critic Ya

New Book: Realizing Capital – Financial and Psychic Economies in Victorian Form

April 10, 2018

Category: Anna Kornbluh, Capitalism, economics, fictitious capital, Finance, financialization, Freud, Investment, Marx, Psychology

By Anna Kornbluh. From Fordham University Press: During a tumultuous period when financial speculation began rap

New book: When Things Don’t Fall Apart – Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence

March 18, 2018

Category: Development, Finance, Financial Crisis, Global Economic Governance, Ilene Grabel, International Finance, International Monetary System, International Political Economy, world economy, World-System

By Ilene Grabel. From MIT Press: In When Things Don’t Fall Apart, Ilene Grabel challenges the dominant view that the gl

New Book: Modern Imperialism, Monopoly Finance Capital, and Marx’s Law of Value

February 25, 2018

Category: Capitalism, Critical Social Science, Finance, Imperialism, International Political Economy, Marx, Marxian Economics, Marxism, Monopoly Capital, Monthly Review, Political economy, Samir Amin, Value Theory, world economy, World-System

By Samir Amin. From Monthly Review Press: Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism

Frank Ackerman on Worst Case Economics

January 28, 2018

Category: Alejandro Reuss, Climate Change, Dollars & Sense, Environment, Finance, Frank Ackerman, Triple Crisis

Frank Ackerman is principal economist at Synapse Energy Economics in Cambridge, Mass., and the author of Worst Case Ec

Call for Chapters – Geobanking in the world-system: links between States’ geopolitical strategies, finance & globalization

January 4, 2018

Category: Capitalism, Corporations, Finance, Financial System, financialization, Geobanking, Geography, Global Economic Governance, Global Network on Financial Geography (FinGeo), Globalization, International Political Economy, Money, Money & Banking, State Theory, world economy, World-System

Analyses of the financial system from various disciplines has yet to fully explore the connections between the geopol

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