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Branko Milanovic asks whether an international economic system can exist in a world of nationalisms? The post World War II international economic organizations were conceived…

Brian Stoddart explores the Australian government's attacks on its higher education sector's position in the international student market. Australia’s meandering…

Historian David N. Gibbs, author of “The Revolt of the Rich,” says we mustn’t whitewash President Carter’s record. Research has long established strong links between neoliberal…

In this column, Alfredo Toro Hardy analyzes the nature of the USA’s hegemony and its current fading process. America’s hegemony was preceded by the British one. As generally…

A review of Gary Gerstle’s “The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order”. The very well-written and easy to read book by Gary Gerstle (The Rise and Fall of the Neoliberal Order)…

Branko Milanovic - Wars and ideology simplified. Recently, a Chinese author (as seems from the text and the Chinese characters used) proposed the following understanding of…

In his monthly column, Alfredo Toro Hardy explains how Republicans and Democrats underwent a dramatic inversion of their respective souls, becoming very much the opposite of what…

Carbon dividends, public investment, and binding carbon-emissions reductions to commensurate reductions of toxic air pollutants from fossil fuels are three policies that narrow…

Following Pezeshkian's victory, CMEG economist Mahdi Ghodsi explores replicating reformist-era economic growth, the challenges of international sanctions and domestic structures,…

Karl Polanyi’s Great Transformation is one of these famous books whose ideas have been so absorbed into social sciences that the books themselves are no longer read. This would be…