By Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman Welcome to our second bulletin. This month features a behind-the-scenes look at the world economy, and a heads-up on why Manitoba is not doing too bad at all. Economists are often humbled by the Danish proverb that runs “never predict anything, especially the future”. In the present market turmoil …
By Alan Freeman Welcome to our new column – and thanks to the Chamber for the invitation. Our first post ties together two news items: We are headed into a recession while every level of government is announcing commitments to ‘Creativity and Culture’. To conventional thinking this sounds odd: why spend on luxuries when we …
The website of the International Working Group on Value Theory is back online. www.copejournal.com A new feature is volume 1 of our journal, Critique of Political Economy, available free of charge. Its contents are listed below. =========== Critique of Political Economy, Volume 1 Editors’ Note: Introducing COPE Articles • David E. Kaun, Nature and Significance …
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 …
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 …
Wednesday, March 18th, 2015 George DeMartino 11:30 am, Migizii Agamik, Aboriginal Students Center, Winter Colloquium. University of Manitoba. “Global Economy, Global Justice: Indigenous participants in the global economy.” Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 George DeMartino 2:30 pm, 307 Tier Building. University of Manitoba. “A Hippocratic Oath for Economists?” Discussant: John Loxley
Geopolitical Economy: After US Hegemony, Globalization and Empire (2013), written by Radhika Desai Geopolitical Economy radically reinterprets the historical evolution of the world order, as a multi-polar world emerges from the dust of the financial and economic crisis. Radhika Desai offers a radical critique of the theories of US hegemony, globalisation and empire which dominate …
In January 2015, Radhika Desai spoke at the 2015 Rosa Luxembourg Conference in Berlin, Germany. The event was hosted by Junge Welt (Young World), a left-wing newspaper founded in 1947.