Political Economy

The IMF is a purposive actor in world politics, primarily driven by a set of homogenous economic ideas, Stephen C. Nelson suggests, and its profess...

For as long as there have been rich nations and poor nations, debt has been a powerful force for maintaining the unequal relations between them. Tr...

Since 2000, countries across Africa have maintained over a decade of unprecedented economic expansion in a phenomena known as Africa rising. Howev...

The United States has just gone through the worst economic crisis in a generation. Why wasnt there more protest, as there was in other countries? D...

More than 130 years after Karl Marx's death and 150 years after the publication of his opus magnum Capital: Critique of Political Economy, capitali...

Out of early twentieth-century Russia came the world's first significant effort to build a modern revolutionary society. According to Marxist econo...

Predatory Value Extraction explains how an ideology of corporate resource allocation known as 'maximizing shareholder value' (MSV) that emerged in ...

The work of Karl Polanyi has become a central reference point for scholars in a variety of traditions and disciplines within the social sciences, i...

The work of Karl Polanyi has become a central reference point for scholars in a variety of traditions and disciplines within the social sciences, i...

The implications of Brexit for Northern Ireland are profound, given its history and geographical position as a land border with the European Union....

Unlike such obvious forms of oppression as feudalism or slavery, capitalism has been able to survive through its genius for disguising corporate pr...

We have become accustomed to economists and politicians talking about market forces as if they are immutable laws of the universe. But what exactly...

China's rise is altering global power relations, reshaping economic debates, and commanding tremendous public attention. Despite extensive media an...

In this collection of trenchant essays and interviews, Istv n M sz ros, the world''s preeminent Marxist philosopher and winner of the 2008 Libertad...

A fascinating story of the important yet virtually unknown episode in the history of money, this history chronicles the British manufacturers chall...