Inequality

I was asked four questions by the ‘Thinkers Forum’, a China-based think tank originating in Guangcha. This post contains the questions, the slideshow that accompanies my presentation and a link [...]

This is the first organised presentation of my theses on Columbian myth system as the organising principle of the Collective West. It argues that there is a continuity in imperialism dating back [...]

I was invited to act as guest editor for a special edition of Japanese Political Economy, dedicated to the question of International Income Inequality. This is due to appear as a book. Readers [...]

My presentation to the 30th August 2021 ASSIST seminar organised by Mammo Muchie

Online presentation to a conference organised by Kocaeli University. This slideshow is a version of the more definitive talk given to Beijing Sports University.

This article on the material origins of American Exceptionalism summarises some of the fundings of [Working Paper 1 of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group] on the long-term decline of the [...]

A short slideshow on the relation between Northern decline and International Inequality

Presentation to conference at Beijing Sports University. Slides in English and Chinese. Also with Radhika Desai’s slides on Developmental and Cultural Nationalism. This post also includes a video [...]

Commissioned blog post for The Mint Magazine, 11 December 2019. “Alan Freeman interprets the art of deft manipulation of fact used in painting an unrealistically assuring, yet remarkably [...]

Invited to UNAM in the winter of 2019, I arrived in Mexico on the same day as Evo Morales. Deposed and threatened with assassination in the Bolivian coup, he escaped to Mexico with the valiant [...]