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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…
Martha Molfetas points to the elephant in the room holding back the SDGs.
Right now, only 17% of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) will be achieved by 2030. Climate…
Free: Coming of Age at the End of History. Lea Ypi. Penguin. 2021
It is not often that one in the process of learning of, or reading, a book develops three different opinions…
Gregory T. Chin argues that the NDB's second decade will be shaped by how it navigates a world of worsening geopolitical and geo-economic tensions between rival…