Originally printed online at Canadian Dimension By Alan Freeman Alan Freeman: The progressive Latin American governments of the 21st century, the so-called Pink Tide governments, have received heavy blows in the recent past and have been replaced by conservative, right-wing governments in Brazil, Argentina and, evidently, Ecuador. What are people on the right saying about …
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 2:30 PM Room 237, University College, University of Manitoba with Andre Vltchek Despite the end of the Cold War, Western governments continue their war against socialism with a range of tactics, such as the ongoing and very visible coup attempts, as in Venezuela, to ‘invisible coups’, as in Brazil. Andre Vltchek …
Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM Room 237, University College, University of Manitoba with Julia Buxton The ‘war’ on drugs can never be won. Prohibition oriented approaches based on criminalization and punitive criminal justice responses have instead generated vast illegal markets and a lucrative counter narcotics ‘industry’. Rather than moving toward the …
Published on GlobalResearch, January 23, 2019 Featuring Michael Welch, Radhika Desai, Nino Pagliccia, and Lucas Koerner America’s long sought goal of regime change in Venezuela may be on the verge of being realized. Thanks in large part to low oil commodity prices and U.S. economic sanctions imposed in 2017, an economic crisis has devastated the …
By Steve Ellner La izquierda latinoamericana en el poder: cambios y enfrentamientos en el siglo XXI contains chapters on Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Cuba, social movements and the media are by the following authors: the late Roger Burbach, David Raby, Marcel Nelson, Federico Fuentes, Héctor Perla, Héctor Cruz Feliciano, Camila Piñera Harnecker, Kevin Young …
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group invites you to a public lecture by Dr. Zhu Ran What was the real post-war Japanese model? Time and place: Friday, January 18th at 2:30 PM in University College, Room 383. University of Manitoba Download PDF Poster Abstract: In this presentation, I will examine both cultural and economic nationalism and …
By GERG Director Alan Freeman Download Paper (PDF) This spreadsheet contains a long-run dataset on GDP, from a variety of sources and by a range of different measures, for nations in the ‘North’ – the advanced or industrialised countries, as the IMF calls them. It is an extract from a much larger database on macroeconimic …
Class, State and Nation in the Twenty-First Century The Fourteenth Forum of the World Association for Political Economy 19-21 July 2019, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada The 14th WAPE Forum on “Class, State and Nation in the Twenty-First Century’ will be held 19-21 July 2019 at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada in conjunction with …
Originally printed on October 5, 2018 at Classic 107 With the municipal election only weeks away, we thought we’d delve into the role arts and culture plays in civic politics. Alan Freeman is a cultural economist. He was the principal economists with the Greater London Authority for 10 years, and, up until just recently he …
New Directions in Modern Economics Series, featuring articles by Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai This volume concentrates on contemporary Post-Keynesian contributions in money, method and economic policy. Post-Keynesian economics shares with Keynes the ambition of understanding the economy as a whole and as an integrated part of society. The book begins by analysing money, banks …