Slides | Understanding the World Economy

What is to be done? Closing plenary speech at the 2019 WAPE conference

What is to be done? speech at the closing plenary of the annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) hosted by the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, July 2019.

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This video is extracted from the closing plenary. The entire plenary can be viewed here:

A second paper, entitled ‘Postcolonial imperialism’ was presented at the same conference; in this entry and that one, the same two slide packs are employed, but the video is different.

Planning in the Internet Age

This paper argues that economists need to start a proper discussion on the theory of planning. I also suggest some elements that the theory might contain, based on my practical experience as a government planner in the Greater London Authority and via my earlier consultancy work as a data analyst in corporate planning.

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The origins of Western Hubris and the destiny of Northern Exceptionalism

Talk and slides (in English and Chinese) presented at Beijing Sports University at the conference entitled “Thinking of Different Nations with a Philosophical view”.

Declino del Norte, su tasa de ganancia, y el despliege de su guerra economica contra el Sur

Diapositivos para acompanar una presntacion a UNAM el 23 Abril sobre la economia mundial y su relacion con la tasa de ganacia, y los raices de la guerra del Norte contra el Sur.

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The Whole of the Storm: Money, debt and crisis in the current long depression

Originally published in Marxism 21, this article investigates the mechanisms and causes of recessions and depressions, and their relation to the more spectacular financial crises which announce them.

The trouble with economics

Slides from a talk at the 2016 Congress of the Humanities in Calgary, as part of a roundtable on economics with Len Findlay, Robert Chernomas and Ian Hudson. The talk covers key aspects of the movement for the reform of economics teaching in the UK, with relevance to the rest of the world.

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