In Memoriam Jude Woodward
We woke to learn with terrible sadness that we have lost Jude Woodward, a comrade, a friend, and an inspiration. I worked with Jude at the GLA for eight years, which made London what it is today [...]
Imperialism and the Decline of the North
A short slideshow on the relation between Northern decline and International Inequality
Creative labour, mental objects and the modern theory of production
I wrote this article in response to a request by Aleksandr Buzgalin to respond to his own article in Science and Society. This allowed me to develop the critical notion of ‘mental objects’. This [...]
A General Theory of Value and Money (Part 1: Foundations of an Axiomatic Theory)
This article is the first systematic formulation of the theory of value in continuous time, freeing it from the prison of discrete (period) analysis in which it has been trapped since the [...]
The origins of Western hubris and the destiny of Northern exceptionalism.
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 [...]
Evaluating the 2012 London Olympics (评估2012年伦敦奥运会)
Evaluating the 2012 London Olympics’. Presentation to conference of Beijing Sports University on ‘Thinking of Different Nations with a Philosophical view’, within the research [...]
Hidden in Plain Sight
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 [...]
Foreword to ’The Theory of Crisis and the Great Recession in Spain’ by Juan Pablo Mateo Tomé
The importance of Juan Pablo Mateo’s rare book goes well beyond the promise of the title, because through the prism of the Spanish economy, it offers the reader an understanding of the economic [...]
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Posted Mexico y America Latina en el Sur Global
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 [...]
The ownership of mental objects and the concept of social modernization
In Mexico, I gave a talk on creative industries and mental objects. This post contains the main text of that talk, and an additional fragment from which the title of this post is taken; I don’t [...]