Not the Thucydides Trap
Presentation to the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) on ‘Rethinking Economic Analysis: Perspective of Political Economy’, Shanghai International Studies University, China
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 [...]
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 [...]
Class, State and Nation. Opening Plenary speech and presentation at the 14th annual conference of the World Association for Political Economy, Winnipeg, 19th july 2019
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 [...]
Introductions to ‘The Creation of Value by Living Labour: a Normative and Empirical Study’
This contains my introductions to each of two volumes of the work by Professor Chen Enfu and his colleagues, which I was asked to edit for publication by Canut Press. The book ([see the 2014 post [...]
How the West was Lost. Acceptance speech for the Marxian Economics Award at the 2018 conference of the World Association for Political Economy
How the West was Lost. Acceptance speech for the Marxian Economics Award at the 2018 conference of the World Association for Political Economy. The text brings together a number of ideas from the [...]
Depressions, Cycles and capitalist self-restoration: a pluralistic introduction to the relation between Schumpeter, Keynes, and Marx. Short course at Changchung University, Jilin province, China
At the instigation of Wolfram Elsner, we took part in a course in heterodox economics at Changchung University, Jilin province, China. Other participants were Tae Hee Jo and Paolo Ramazzotti. [...]
The Marxism of Marx: why a Chinese Political Economy is Needed, and Why it Cannot be Supplied by Western Marxist Economists
This invitation, to take part in the 8th World Socialist Forum October 2017 in Beijing, allowed me to formalize my views about the general paralysis of economics in the West, including its causes [...]
The Living Wage and the Minimum Wage – a comparison.
Presentation to International Symposium on ‘China Path toward Poverty Eradication and Comprehensive Well-off Society’, Peking University, October 22-23, 2016. This particular [...]
