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 [...]
What is to be Done? Closing plenary speech to the 14th annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy
The third conference of the Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG) was held in Winnipeg in the anniversary year of the Winnipeg General Strike. It was also the 14th annual conference of the [...]
Did Bolsonaro Win?
The election of a Brazilian president committed to a range of openly fascist policies sent shockwaves through the Western body politic. But did Brazilians actually endorsed this man and his [...]
Arts Provocation 3: State of Uncertainty – Innovation Policy through Experimentation
This third of [three provocations] originally published on the Mission Money Models website, this paper by Hasan Bakhshi, Alan Freeman and Jason Potts proposes a fundamental shift in the role of [...]
Green Shoots?
By Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai, published on the GFC Economics site, May 12th 2009
How Much is Enough? On the Size of an Adequate Fiscal Stimulus
Published on Anne Pettifor’s Debtonation website, this short piece argued that the US and other governments had vastly underestimated the size of the ‘stimulus’ needed to get their countries out [...]