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BRICS Isn’t De-Dollarizing Anytime Soon
Why the Global South path away from the dollar will be longer and more difficult than many friends of BRICS imagine.
Read more...Industrial Policy: Lessons from China’s Shipbuilding
A study of China’s shipbuilding industrial policy finds big market share gains did not produce domestic welfare benefits.
Read more...Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff: BRICS High Aspirations Versus Cautious First Steps
Michael Hudson and Richard Wolff discuss the recent BRICS summit as well as its rapidly-evolving geopolitical backdrop.
Read more...Another Nobel for Anglocentric Neoliberal Institutional Economics
New institutional economics won another “Nobel prize”, claiming that good institutions and governance ensure growth, equity & democracy.
Read more...‘Hate and Lust for Vengeance Are Passed Like Poison from One Generation to the Next’
Vengeance is coming home.
Read more...The Great Game of Logistics
Logistics corridors play an increasing role in the New Cold War. Do workers lose no matter who wins?
Read more...How Corporate Vehicles Conceal Crime and Chicanery
Financial vehicles designed to conceal wealth and questionable activity fuel corruption and crime while allowing perps evade accountability
Read more...Book Review: All History Is Environmental History
“History for an urban, globalized, and divided planet, written from a position of empathy for the all-too-human dreams of fossil-fueled escape that now lie in ruins.”
Read more...Key Issues in Economic Analysis in an Increasingly Turbulent Security Environment
After a period of rapid growth, recent trends in world trade reveal a phase of stagnation. Rising geopolitical tensions have been accompanied by trade restrictions in the name of national and economic security. Analysis of economic security measures should consider multiple dimensions, including the effect on global supply chains, efficiency, costs, foreign direct investment, trade in services, and international competition.
Read more...“Is The West Prepared to Deal With Potential Iranian Sabotage of the Oil Market?”
A discussion of some of the ways Iran could use economic, as in oil, leverage to retaliate against an Israel strike.
Read more...De-risking Downsides
The EU starts a trade war with China. Like the “de-risking” from Russia, the US is once again poised to be the main beneficiary.
Read more...Satyajit Das: US Presidential Politics – The More They Bicker, the More They Stay the Same
US presidential candidates promise policy choices but have little room to manoeuvre. Ergo, politics turns into a contest like American Idol
Read more...The Sanctions Poison Pill in Putin’s Peace Offer
A discussion of Putin including a not-much-discussed deal term that the West will never accept: sanctions relief.
Read more...Rob Urie: Failed US Economic Policies Lie Behind Current Geopolitical Tensions
How US fealty to neoliberalism undermined its economy. And why China’s choices are not likely to produce happy outcomes.
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