Oil, COVID-19 and the global economy
By Cyrus Bina, The freefall of contract oil (i.e. the futures market in WTI) is due to an immediate halt in global demand f
world economy
COVID-19 and the Global Economy
A lecture and Q&A with Jayati Ghosh on the impact of COVID-19 on the global economy and the periphery in particular
New Book: Crises and Hegemonic Transitions – From Gramsci’s Quaderni to the Contemporary World Economy
By Lorenzo Fusaro. From Haymarket Books: Tracing the vicissitudes of US hegemony from the interwar period to the prese
Samir Amin: The Organic Intellectual
Taking as its point of departure this documentary, itself a feature of 50 books by Samir Amin, depicts the audacious str
Global Commodity Chains and the New Imperialism
By Intan Suwandi, R. Jamil Jonna and John Bellamy Foster (originally posted at Monthly Review), Twenty-first-centur
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
ILO: Global wage growth lowest since 2008, women still earning 20 per cent less than men
The latest ILO Global Wage report finds global wage growth has been weak while the gender pay gap, at about 20 per cent glo
Call for papers on finance & power for Transnational Institute (TNI) State of Power 2019
TNI’s annual State of Power reports have, since their launch in 2012, become a must-see reference point for citizens, a
The New Postcolonial Economics with Fadhel Kaboub
Fadhel Kaboub, associate professor of economics at Denison University and President of the Binzagr Institute for Sus
Minqi Li – China’s political economy and the future of North-South relations
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3UltHAfRU&w=640&h=360] Minqi Li, Professor of Economics
Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp1WQ&w=640&h=360] Economist and fierce EU critic Ya
15th Annual Conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics
Ecological Economics and Socio-ecological Movements: Science, policy and challenges to global processes in a troub
Call For Papers: How to conceptualise Financialisation in Developing and Emerging economies?
How to conceptualise Financialisation in Developing and Emerging economies? Manifestations, Drivers and Implicat
John Smith’s Response to David Harvey on Imperialism
By John Smith, When David Harvey says “the historical draining of wealth from East to West for more than two centuries ha
New book: When Things Don’t Fall Apart – Global Financial Governance and Developmental Finance in an Age of Productive Incoherence
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
By Samir Amin. From Monthly Review Press: Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism
David Harvey’s Response to John Smith on Imperialism
By David Harvey, John Smith is lost in the desert and dying for water. His trusty GPS system tells him there is fresh water
Call for papers: Development Studies Association Conference 2018
27-29th June 2018 Academics from the Global Development Institute are helping to convene a number of panels at the ann
The Rise of the Global Corporation and the Polarization of the Managerial Class in the US
By Ramaa Vasudevan, This article seeks to understand the sharp divergence in the earnings of top managerial executive