Economics of Imperialism

[ Note added 14 September 2021: An update to the Index of Power, with some improvements to data, especially that of using total foreign inv...

François Chesnais, Finance Capital Today: Corporations and Banks in the Lasting Global Slump , Brill, Leiden, 2016 This book is well w...

The table below is an update of some figures shown in the first article on this blog, 'The Economics of British Imperialism' in Ma...

This is an update to the chart on the ‘Index of Imperialism’ published on this blog six months ago, on 1 May. The change made here is th...

This article reviews the balance of payments data for the main imperialist countries to highlight their economic relationships with the ...

There are close to 7 billion people in the world, in some 200 countries. However, a very small minority of rich, powerful countries - or r...