Economics of Imperialism

The question of debt is often absent from media coverage of the progress, or not, of the world economy. But a troubling problem is...

The reality of a global economy is shown by close connections in trade and investment, and is reflected in similar trends that affect many k...

The golden age of the British Labour Party was the 1945-51 Labour government. So it is worth noting some little known aspects of its pol...

A large proportion of the world's industrial employment is in poorer countries. In 2012, the International Labour Organisation estimates...

This week, London's Financial Times has decided to get back to what it is good at and report on some interesting economic develop...

(This is a guest article) That millions of workers in Asia on minimal wages produce a huge amount of consumer goods for the West is ...

Lenin was fond of the English saying: ‘Facts are stubborn things’. The accuracy of many so-called facts may be disputable, but it can be ...

On 6 June, Dave Z put a comment at the end of my article on “What the ‘China price’ really means”. This note addresses the two main points...