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Since world war II there have been two quite distinct phases of world growth. In about 1965, a long slowdown set in which has still not ended. Robert Brenner (2002, 2003) has re-ignited the debate about its causes, claiming that nothing in either present or past economic theory explains it. He...
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This paper, presented at the Laboratori per la Critica Sociale organised by the Centro Studi Transformazione Economico-Sociali (CESTES-PROTEO), is the English language version of ‘The age of war: From world market to world conquest’, presented at the Forum on the Theoretical analysis of the...
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Prepublication version of ‘When things go wrong: the Political Economy of Market Breakdown’ in Westra; R and Alan Zuege (Eds) (2003) Value and the World Economy Today: Production; Finance and Globalization; pp91-118. London:MacMillan; ISBN: 1 40390 002 7 This paper constructs a theoretical...
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) alternating with 15-30 year phases of stable rapid growth. *long term growth in inequality between nations. The gap between rich …
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This article comprises our introduction to the book The Politics of Empire: Globalization in Crisis (Freeman and Kagarlitsky 2004) which we wrote jointly to introduce the articles in that volume, was the outcome of a seminar called in 2002 by the Transnational Institute to assess responses to...
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sustainability challenges, such as rising income inequality, wealth concentration and growing carbon emissions. In this regard, an …
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The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct historical measures of inequality from 1968 to 2008. We study whether monetary … monetary policy shocks lead to a deterioration in earnings and income inequality and contribute to its fluctuation. Our …
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This paper analyses the pre-tax inequality in the income that individuals actually receive in Brazil and the role of … inequality in Brazil but maintain the decreasing inequality trends, even though they are less pronounced than previously measured …
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The UK has experienced a dramatic increase in earnings and income inequality over the past four decades. We use … detailed micro level information to construct quarterly historical measures of inequality from 1969 to 2012. We investigate … whether monetary policy shocks played a role in explaining this increase in inequality. We find that contractionary monetary …
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This interview is a prepublication version of an article that appeared in the Turkish journal Praxis in September 2002. The article published answers to questions posed by the journal editors to Alan Freeman, Riccardo Bellofiore and Hugo Radice. In this article I have assembled my own responses,...
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