Haroon's devlog

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

An excellent analysis of mobile money transfer that pours cold water on the way that it is perceived by the global development institutions:...

Jayoti Ghosh is one of the best heterodox development economists working today. Here is her recent prescription for equitably fixing the gl...

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...

As some readers of this weblog are aware, I believe that one of the ways that we can understand the prevailing social and economic system un...

On Thursday this week the 25 leaders of the G20 grouped of developed capitalist and developing capitalist countries meet in London, in what ...

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...

It really is quite remarkable who the financial and political elite have turned to in order to understand the ongoing crisis. Two economist...

Readers of this weblog will know that the global financial crisis of the past 3 weeks has, in my view, fundamentally changed the landscape o...

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

Previous posts to this weblog have discussed the relationship between the US sub-prime credit crunch, and hence the ongoing US cyclical rece...

Summer has come to an end, and, in the aftermath of Labour Day, we can start to look forward to the autumn. Over the course of the summer, ...

Yesterday the Shanghai stock exchange dropped 9 per cent in a single day, apparently setting off a worldwide round of selling as panicked in...

The Cato Institute, a right-of-center US think tank with close ties to certain members of the Bush Administration, has made an intervention ...