Economics of Imperialism

Analysis of how the world economy works

Sunday, 15 September 2013

Information Flows

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Fibre optic submarine cables carry the vast bulk of Internet and other communications traffic between continents. If you - by which I mean y...
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Saturday, 31 August 2013

Saudi vs Syria: Imperial Policy Crisis

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US president Obama has today assured the word of his intention to launch missiles at Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons, but he h...
Friday, 23 August 2013

The Australia-Hong Kong War of 1994

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Life imitates art, as shown by the following link to an excellent satire on TV news, The Day Today , first shown on British TV in 1994. ...
Thursday, 22 August 2013

Understanding the Syrian Situation

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(Here is a guest article on a key issue for imperialism today) Most radical thinking on Syrian is convinced that the West, and parti...
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Wednesday, 21 August 2013

The Economics of Spying

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The UK's Guardian newspaper has had a good run of scoops based on US-fugitive Edward Snowden's revelations about the scale of spyin...
Monday, 19 August 2013

Monopoly #2

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Why waste words when the numbers speak for themselves? However, a little explanation may be useful in this case. * The numbers in the tab...
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Tony Norfield
I use the term ‘imperialism’ in the classical sense to describe the system of domination in the capitalist world economy. Liberal commentary is more open these days to some notion of imperialism. But usually it is another country that is being imperialist, especially the US, and not the home country. The focus on the US is understandable, but ignores the role that a number of other countries play in the system, not least the UK. If we uncover this too, we will get a better analysis of what is really going on in the world. I am based in London and my academic training is in economics and mathematics. I worked for 8 years as an economic consultant, and for close to 20 years in bank dealing rooms in the City, latterly as Executive Director in charge of analysing global FX markets for a major European bank. I have travelled to some 40 countries on business. At present I am researching imperialism and the world economy. I want this blog to generate informed debate & discussion. Comments are welcome. Nobody has all the answers; anyone can make mistakes. But that is no excuse for being an idiot and not seeking the truth.
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