The long “golden era” of postwar economic growth and social welfare in the Western industrial societies vindicated his hopes, and the current breakdown of that era confirms his fears. On the eve of ...

The neoliberal like the neoconservative are creations of the post war boomer population rejecting centuries of tradition ...

Helsinki Centre of Global Political Economy is hosting a book launch for professor Heikki Patomäki's newest book The Three Fields of Global Political Economy at the Helsinki Collegium for Advance ...

Mongabay is publishing a new edition of the book, “A Perfect Storm in the Amazon,” in short installments and in three languages: Spanish, English and Portuguese. Author Timothy J. Killeen is ...

The title of Meghnad Desai’s recent book, The Poverty of Economics: How Economics Abandoned the Poor, is a clear pointer towards how the discipline of economics, since the time it evolved from ...

What Is Political Economy? Adam Smith, David Ricardo, and John Stuart Mill are widely regarded as the originators of modern economics. But they called themselves political economists, and Mill’s ...

In numerous countries discussed in the book, extractive political institutions had created extractive economic institutions, transferring wealth and power toward elites: “Nations fail today ...

Three ambitious new books - by Tim Jackson, Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson, ... Three ambitious new books take a look at what ails the political economy of liberal democracy, ...

On Jan. 14, the Political Economy Project — a professor-led interdisciplinary project that hosts talks on economics, ... “A Measure Short of War: A Brief History of Great Power Subversion.” In the ...