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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 [...]

In October 1999 I was invited to address the de facto founding conference, in Porto Alegre, of the World Social Forum. There are two items here. The first is a report to the Research Committee of [...]

The paper examines the profession of economics in the light of its disarray in the face of the financial crash of 1998. It was presented in a variety of forms and at a number of events so this [...]

Version espanhol de 'A Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of Value'

In June 1998 the Brasil Society for Political Economy organised a conference. This took place just before the crash of 1998, and with the devastating effects of the neoliberal decades sweeping [...]

This paper proposes a materialist analysis of the theory and practice of academic economics, the body of thought which Marx dubbed the 'graveyard of economics'. It subjects the claim of the [...]