Economics of Imperialism

David Graeber, Debt: the First 5,000 Years, Melville House, Brooklyn, New York, 2011, 534 pages The main value of this book is to a...

The phase of the latest global crisis that began with some spectacular financial explosions in 2007-2008 is still with us. Now even the inse...

Summer in London is welcome, but for one thing: the multitude of tattoos visible everywhere. Walk down the street and you feel like you are ...

The London 2012 Olympics (here I am possibly breaching copyright, just using the term) offer the usual sporting rivalry that is mixed with a...

What role do banks play for the major imperialist powers? Everyone knows that the rich countries own the big banks, and that the big banks...

Here is a chart produced by John Smith that sums up the changes in the global industrial workforce from 1950 to 2005. It was produced as par...

The following quotation is taken from a Lehman Brothers press release in April 2004. This was the occasion when Gordon Brown, then UK Chanc...