Global Economy

Globalisation and Capitalism

• Economic meltdown in Argentina

  We look at the economic background to the rioting and looting in Argentina, and the factors which led to the social crisis there. (February 2002)

• Who's afraid of the W.T.O?

  The World Trade Organisation represents the interests of the capitalist class and is a product of the lessons they have learned for protecting their system. (December 2001)

• Tobin tax - what a joke

  The call for a Tobin tax - a tax on financial transactions - is not "anti-capitalist", as some in the "anti-globalisation movement" seem to think. (December 2001)

A study of the shape of globalised capitalism and whether there is an alternative. (April 2001)

• 1. Introduction
• 2. The move towards free trade
• 3. The World Bank, IMF and Structural Adjustment
• 4 Globalisation - Is there an alternative?

Nations and Markets

• Dropping the Debt?

  Debt crisis for the world's poorest nations. (May 2001)

• Financial wizards or great pretenders?

  The IMF and Ghana. (October 2001)

• Uganda's politics of alcohol, soap, salt and sugar

  Reflections on the Ugandan election. (October 2001)

• A girl's best friend

  Diamonds, Death and Profits. (August 2000)

• Going for oil

  United States enters Central Asia, seeking control over oil resources. (January 1999)

• Boom goes bust in Asia

  Thirty countries covering a quarter of the world's population are officially in recession. Even defenders of capitalism are now compelled to use the term "world economic crisis". (October 1998)

• Russian capitalism in crisis

  Russia is in trouble; and its economy is in dead crisis. (August 1998)

• China's transformation

  China's move from state-run to free market capitalism. (July 1996)

• Africa and the reality of capitalism

(1) Principles of Political Economy and Taxation, Chapter XXI , 1881.

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