Economics of Imperialism

Analysis of how the world economy works

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Manchester

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I will be presenting on a panel at Manchester University's 2017 Post-Crash Economics Society Conference, held on the weekend of 18-19 ...
Sunday, 5 March 2017

The Politics of Counting Billions of Beans

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Just in case you were one of the half dozen or so people who thought that Brexit would be a simple affair, the UK's House of Lords Europ...
Wednesday, 1 March 2017

What is Marx’s Value Theory Worth?

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At a recent talk I gave on imperialism, there was an interesting question raised on what I thought about Marx’s theory of value. This se...
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Monday, 27 February 2017

Innovation

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It took me a while, but I have finally used the Blogger system for accessing past and current contributions on this blog by topic, identifie...
Wednesday, 15 February 2017

The Anti-Russia Syndrome

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I normally cast aside explanations of events based on the psychology of the actors, but this has been hard to do in recent months. How e...
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Thursday, 9 February 2017

Sussex

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Next Thursday, 16 February, I will be giving a lecture on 'Capitalism, Imperialism and Finance' at the University of Sussex, Falmer,...
Wednesday, 1 February 2017

Finance and the Imperialist World Economy

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I will be giving a lecture next week at King's College, London, on Wednesday 8 February. The session is from 6pm to 8pm, and is part o...
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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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