Haroon's devlog

During the 1980s, living in England during the Thatcher years, one of the most profound influences on my intellectual development were the w...

This is, without doubt, the best short exposition of Marx's theory of crisis that I have ever heard. It is brilliant, and congratulation...

Trust Mike Davis to tell it like it is. It is going to be a difficult few years. Crash club: when sputtering economies collide - Opinion...

A quarter of a million Indian farmers have committed suicide in the last 16 years—an average of one suicide every 30 minutes. The crisis has...

An excellent illustration of how to challenge the perverse deflationary logic that now governs economic policy making in the developed capit...

Transiting through Dulles Airport in Washington, DC on my return from Dakar on Sunday, I was struck by the titles of the mass-market books o...

Thirty months ago the contours of the global economic crisis began to become apparent. Twenty-two months ago the developed capitalist count...

Many people find the times that we live in to be profoundly disempowering. Despite the fact that the social and economic system under which...

March 1 2009 was an awful day on financial markets around the world. The economic crisis that erupted into the public eye on September 15 2...

I have been spending the holiday season in Richmond , Virginia , my first trip to the former capital of the Confederate States of America a...

Samuel P. Huntington, one of the most influential and important American political scientists in the field of international development stud...

My undergraduate students commonly seem to think that the world doesn't change very much. Yet last week, between 14 September and 18 Se...

The International Monetary Fund has, in its most recent edition of the semi-annual World Economic Outlook , made an astonishing, if not, for...

I was struck in a student seminar this week when we were talking about microfinance. I was discussing the underlying assumption, noted in a...