An online talk to students at Moscow State University on the definition and economic role of the creative industries. A fairly definitive academic presentation summarising much of the work and [...]
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 discussion of Luxemburg’s claims concerning Marx’s schemata of Expanded Reproduction, demonstrating that his asssumptions are not those attributed to him in the subsequent debate. Demonstrates [...]
In September 2018 Sergey Levchenko, the left-wing governor of the region of Irkutsk, organised a conference on Regional and local development, with the assistance of Boris Kakarlitsky. We [...]
This paper suggests the foundations for a theory of mental objects and their role in production, later developed fully in my debate with Buzgalin in Science and Society, and my contribution to [...]
This special issue of International Critical Thought, edited by Radhika Desai, myself and Boris Kagarlitsky, was devoted to the conflict in Ukraine, its origins, and its geopolitical [...]
This paper by Radhika Desai and myself was published by the Val Dai club as https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/report-brexit-the-city-and-the-crisis/. This post also contains a shorter article in [...]
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG), together with the editors of New Cold War (NCW), organised three panels for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS). The first was on ‘Russia, [...]
A large conference was held on ‘Russia in the Global Economy: Challenges and development institutions’ at the South Federal University Higher School of Business, Rostov-on-Don, 26-28th May 2016. [...]
‘On the Rehabilitation of Communism’. Text submitted to the Joint conference on Neotraditionalism and Archaisation of Political Space in the Center and Periphery of the World-System: Causes and [...]
