The research outlines the sovereign-fund based Ponzi scheme of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) rent-seeking powers. It analyzes into the evidence from the internet economy in PRC with Alibaba and the failed Nasdaq Initial Public Offering politics of Ant Group. Five angles have been...

The modern reformulation of Classical analysis of value and distribution built upon Sraffa’s Production of Commodities provides quite a general and open framework to study distributive relationships, that deserves to be still explored. The present work aims to go through these relationships...

The Employer of Last Resort (ELR) program is a New Deal type of program to provide a government position for anyone seeking work. Unlike private industries who compete over prices and wages, the ELR “industry” is not meant to compete with the private sector; rather it provides public...

This essay is meant as a contribution towards the integration of ‘the social sciences’ into a ‘science of human society’. For this it uses concepts and methods that economics has developed, but also questions the adequacy of mainstream economic theory in two aspects: a) the absence of a...

This paper focuses on how Airbnb, an internet platform which has created the possibility for mass participation in the tourism market, is resulting in class conflict between new entrants and the ‘traditional’ tourism industry. Specifically, it studies how traditional tourism interests in...

Preface to his monograph on the socio-philosophical analysis of the social control of the state over society as one of the most important instruments of social control. The book is intended for researchers, managers, as well as for anyone interested in issues of social management and control in...

An article about the use of the methodology of general systems theory and the theory of self-organization as a methodological basis of scientific interpretation of social reality. The author analyzes the role of ideology and propaganda in the different concepts of interpretation of social...

This note draws inspiration from Riccardo Bellofiore’s recent monograph dedicated to Claudio Napoleoni. It examines Napoleoni’s reflections on key issues within Marxist theory, including the theory of value, alienation and exploitation, rent within the Italian economy, the status of economic...

This paper proposes three tasks. It briefly delineates the character of the civilizing mission and the interests it served, especially the colonization of Asia and Africa. In addition, the claims of the civilizing mission and the neoclassical theory of trade are tested empirically by comparing...

“The path of a scholar” is the introduction to Production, Distribution and Trade: Alternative Perspectives, a volume of essays in honour of Sergio Parrinello (edited by Adriano Birolo, Duncan Foley, Heinz Kurz, Bertram Schefold and Ian Steedman, published by Routledge, 2010). The author...