Download PDF of Newsletter Thanks to all who helped circulate our updated Call for Papers including the new deadline for abstract submissions of 15 March 2017. We have confirmed four superb keynote speakers: Julia Buxton of the Central European University; Ruslan Dzarasov of the Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Domenico Losurdo of the Università degli …
This position paper from GERG research director Alan Freeman shows that certain deep, new ideas have profoundly affected economic growth and contributed to great social transformations, outlines a method to measure their impact, and suggests that the next such ‘paradigmatic idea’ could be closer than we think it is.
This year, the Society for Socialist Studies turns fifty, and we look forward to welcoming a record number of colleagues to our annual conference at Congress 2017, hosted by Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario from May 30 – June 2 2017. The theme of the Conference is ‘Liberation Here and Now: Continuity and Change in Socialist …
Written by Radhika Desai Originally printed in the Winnipeg Free Press, June 30, 2016 The Brexit vote was a momentous political earthquake and the seismic shifts that caused it have been long in the making. It has ruptured so many political structures — decades and even centuries old, national and international — so deeply it …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) and Manchester University Press announce a new book series. It aims, inter alia, to promote ‘fresh inter- and multi-disciplinary perspectives on the most pressing new realities of the 21st century: the multipolar world and the renewed economic centrality of states in it. While multipolarity is beginning to be recognized …
Boris Kagarlitksy PhD is a Marxist and sociologist who lives and works in Moscow. He is the director of the Institute of Globalization and Social Movements and is the author of many books on the world system of globalized capitalism and the history and contemporary politics of Russia and the Soviet Union. Dr. Kagarlitsky will …
As our contribution to Culture Days Manitoba, guests are welcome at any of five keynote lectures at the GERG Inaugural Conference on what history can tell us about the multipolar 21st Century world. The lectures, at St John’s College, University of Manitoba, are open to the public. Attendance for a whole day (which includes lunch …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) will hold an international multi-disciplinary conference on ‘From the Thirty Years’ Crisis to Multipolarity: the Geopolitical Economy of the 21st Century World’ at the University of Manitoba from September 25 to 27, 2015. With 138 presenters from over 30 countries, preparations for our conference are well under way, and …
Alan Freeman’s op-ed on the value of creativity was featured in the Winnipeg Free Press on Monday 22nd June. Read it here. You can get Alan’s longer background chapter on “The Irresistible Economics of Art for All” available from McNally Robinson (Grant Park Shopping Centre, 1120 Grant Ave,Winnipeg, phone: (204) 485-0483) for $25.
Alan Freeman spoke to the New Silk Road Academy in China in May 2015. Download “What is the New Silk? Communication, Creativity and Culture in the New World Economy” Key Terms Geopolitical Economy – a special term. Nations and their political economy. Non-substitutable labour – a special term. Labour that can’t be mechanised Information and …