Stand and Deliver: Private Property and the
Politics of Global Dispossession
By Stefan Andreasson - 2006
Queen’s University Belfast
Property rights necessarily generate violent,and oftentimes lethal, processes of dispossession.While liberal
theorists from Locke to Hayek consider property rights as an essential and emancipatory component of
human freedom, they fail to consider societal power asymmetries impeding the ability of property rights
to protect the interests of the weak and marginalised. If property rights produce freedom and prosperity,
they do so very selectively. More obvious is the ongoing historical process of already propertied
classes making ‘clever usurpation into an irrevocable right’ by extending private property regimes along
two key dimensions – type and space.
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The New Economic Geography: effects and policy implications
A symposium sponsored by The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
August 24-26, 2006
- Shift in economic geography and their causes
- Consequences for production and prices, employment and wages
- Consequences for financial markets and global savings and investment
- Strategies for growth
- Implications for monetary policy
- Overview panel
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From The Economist
On
the hiking trail
Globalisation is
generating huge economic gains. That is no reason to ignore its costs
Aug
31st 2006
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The problem of colonialism in classical political
economy : analysis, epistemological breaks and
mystification
By Amiya Kumar Bagchi
Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
...The famous `invisible hand' of Smith
(1776) has been regarded simply as a statement of the justification of laissez faire as the basic
principle that should inform the governance of a commercial society. However, in the Theory of
Moral Sentiments, the proposition about the invisible hand was derived as a special case of the
more general dictum that individual actions motivated by selfish desires (or presumably their
opposite) can have unintended social consequences. In the particular case discussed in the
Theory of Moral Sentiments, the rich, according to Smith (1790, pp.184-5),
"...in spite of their natural selfishness and rapacity, though they mean only their own
conveniency, though the sole end which they propose from the labours of all the
thousands whom they employ, be the gratification of their own vain and insatiable
desires ... are led by an invisible hand to make nearly the same distribution of the
necessaries of life, which would have been made, had the earth been divided into
equal portions among all its inhabitants and thus without intending it, without
knowing it, advance the interest of the society, and afford means to the
multiplication of the species."
There are other passages in the same book which throw considerable light on what Smith
considered to be the appropriate framework for analysis of the motivation and consequences of
public policy - often deriving from very different attitudes to the public sphere (Ibid., pp.185-
187). All this analysis and the necessary distinctions between different ethical systems vanished
in the memory of economists and policy-makers following laissez faire doctrines, and an
`epistemological break' between Smith's Wealth of Nations and his other writings was imposed
by the selective memory of the following generations, although the author himself never
executed such a break (for the concept of `epistemological break' see Althusser, 1969 pp.32-36;
Althusser attributes the concept to Gaston Bachelard).
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Markets, Politics and Globalization:
Can the Global Economy be Civilized?
By Gerald Karl Helleiner - 2000
Professor Emeritus,
Department of Economics and
Distinguished Research Fellow,
Centre for International Studies
University of Toronto, Canada
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Global Critics
Globalcritics.com is
an electronic journal and forum founded in November 2004 in Aberystwyth, Wales.
The idea of the journal is to construct a media and a portal to publish
contemporary views in form of academic writing. The scope is international both
in issues and writers, who are scholars, professionals and students in the field
of social sciences, economics or law. The long-term objective is to develop this
project into a coherent and respected electronic journal with a regular number
of issues published every year.
Global Critics is divided into four main areas:
politics, economics, law and society. Each subject has one or more senior
editors with speciality in the area. These editors overview outlines and attract
qualified writers. Together editors form an editorial board with a chief editor
in charge of quality standard and aims.
The editorial team recognizes the initial
difficulties in producing this journal, but it is important to notice that
Global Critics itself is a project to development skills in electronic
publishing. Global Critics is also a vehicle for the editorial team and the
writers to obtain own leverage and status as years pass by.
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The official
version, in which economics is taught as an ideology in defense of the capitalist market:
economics
economic system
economic planning
economic growth
economic
development
government
economic policy
classical
economics
business cycles
distribution
theory
distribution of
wealth and income
poverty
labour economics
land reform
commodity trade
international trade |
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As an additional
tool the following introductory courses are available:
Introduction to economics
Introduction to macroeconomics
and further information in the
following sites:
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Dr. Róbinson Rojas
papers and notes
Dr. Róbinson Rojas books
J. Sloman and M. Sutcliffe: Economics
Online Economics Textbooks
Teaching Resources
for Economics
As an additional tool the following sites are
available:
Tutor2u Economics.Com
Problems in Microeconomics
A Primer in European Macroeconomics
Economics Testing System
EC 101 Macroeconomics Book
Virtual Economy Home Page
Economics Glossary
(Biz/Ed)
Economic Review
Resources for economists on the internet
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The history of economic thought website
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McMaster University
Archive of the
History of Economic Thought
by Roderick Hay
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sanity, humanity and science
Post-autistic economics review
Issue no. 27, 9 September 2004
In this issue:
- G. C. Harcourt
What would Marx and Keynes have made of the happenings
of the past 30 years and more?
- Richard D. Wolff
The Riddle of Consumption
- M. Ben-Yami
Fisheries management: Hijacked by neoliberal economics
- Deborah Campbell
Here’s what economics students in three countries
are doing to put their professors on the defensive
Read full text of issues
40,
39,
38,
37,
36,
35,
34,
33,
32,
31,
30,
29,
28,
27,
26,
25,
24,
23,
22,
21,
20,
19,
18,
17,
16,
15,
14,
13,
12,
11,
10,
9,
8,
7,
6,
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4,
3,
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Post-autistic economics network
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Some articles on the PAE Movement
- “Teaching
Economics: PAE and Pluralism”, (EAEPE, July 2005)
- “Post-Autistic Economics”, Social Policy, summer 2005)
- “Post-Autistic Economics”, Soundings, April 2005)
- “Signifying nothing?”, The Economist, Jan 29, 2004)
- “Revolutionizing
French Economics”, Challenge, Nov/Dec. 2003)
- “Fired up for battle”, The Guardian (UK) 9 September 2003
- ”Taking
On 'Rational Man'” The Chronicle of Higher Education (US) 24 Jan. 2003
- ”The 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics”, The Journal of Investing (US) Spring 2003
- “The Storming of the Accountants”, The New Statesman (UK) 21 Jan. 2002
- “Post-autisten' vallen economische heilige huisjes aan”, De Morgen, Bruxelles 2 Mar. 2002
- English Translation
- “movimiento económico postautista”, IBLNEWS, 14 March 2002
- “Distorted economic relations: A new movement – the post-autistic economists-
want to renew economics”, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, (Munich) 3 April 2002
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New Economic
Foundation:
The Real World Economics
The international economic system creates damaging
inequalities between rich and poor, and fuels climate change and environmental
degradation. Through Real World Economic Outlook, NEF aims to expose the problems
with the international finance and economic systems and create appropriate remedies. We
are also researching and campaigning on changes to global governance to tackle
international issues like climate change, and work by jubilee research
continues nef’s pioneering involvement in tackling international debt. transforming
markets goes beyond corporate responsibility to set out a new vision for harnessing and
channelling enterprise to meet social and environmental need.
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| World Wide Resources in Economics |
| National Bureau of Economic Research |
International Development Economics Associates
World Summit: from Rio to
Johannesburg |
Resources for economists on the internet
Dictionaries, Glossaries and Encyclopedias |
| IDEAS.- the largest bibliographic database dedicated to economics |
| In defence of Marxism |
| Marxist Economy |
| World Institute for Development Economic Research
(UN) |
| World Income Inequality Database (UN) |
The
Economist:
Research tools |
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| CIA: Basic data on economies |
| World Bank 1996: Classification of economies.
Methodology |
| Search on privatisation |
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9 June 2005
Capitalist Economic Terrorism
Note by Róbinson Rojas: Free-market fundamentalism, which can be described as capitalist economic
terrorism, is creating a world with a small bunch of super rich and a big majority just
surviving on their income. United States is a telling case study of this. What began
with the Reagan Administration is reaching obscene feautures with the Bush
Administration. Statistics show that "for every additional dollar earned by the
bottom 90 percent of the population between 1950 and 1970, those in the top 0.01 percent
earned an additional $162. That gap has since skyrocketed. For every additional dollar
earned by the bottom 90 percent between 1990 and 2002, each taxpayer in that top bracket
brought in an extra $18,000." The New York Times is publishing a special section
("Class Matters"), from which I select here some important texts. They show how
capitalist economic terrorism (free-market fundamentalism) can disjoint a society. The
winners are the ones who have at their service a political class serving their interests
by unleashing political and economic terrorism (otherwise known as globalization) all over
planet Earth. They are building a larger U.S. empire. Modern Caligulas like Bush et al are
the top layer of that political class.
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The Bush Economy (7 June 2005)
Richest Are Leaving Even the
Rich Far Behind (5 June 2005)
Crushing Upward Mobility (7 June 2005)
Class Matters. A special section
The Mobility Myth (6 June 2005)
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The New York Times
- 10 June 2005
Losing Our Country
By Paul Krugman
"The middle-class society I grew up in no longer exists. Working families have seen
little if any progress over the past 30 years. Adjusted for inflation, the income of the
median family doubled between 1947 and 1973. But it rose only 22 percent from 1973 to
2003, and much of that gain was the result of wives' entering the paid labor force or
working longer hours, not rising wages.
But the wealthy have done very well indeed. Since 1973 the average income of the top 1
percent of Americans has doubled, and the income of the top 0.1 percent has tripled."
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From PAE, No 33, 14
September 2005
The Rise and
Demise of the New Public Management
Wolfgang Drechsler
(University of Tartu and Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia)
Within the public sphere, the most important reform movement of the last quarter of a
century has been the New Public Management (NPM). It is of particular interest in the
post-autistic economics (pae) context because NPM largely rests on the same ideology and
epistemology as standard textbook economics (STE) is based, and it has had, and still has,
similar results.
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From PAE, No. 33,
14 September 2005
Forum on Economic Reform
Can the World
Bank Be Fixed?
David Ellerman
(University of California at Riverside)
If the goal of development assistance is to foster autonomous development, then most aid
and "help" is actually unhelpful in the sense of either overriding or
undercutting the autonomy of those being "helped." The two principal forms of
unhelpful "help" are social engineering and charitable relief. The World Bank is
the primary example over the last half century of the failures of social engineering to
"engineer" development. Frustration over these failures, particularly in Africa,
is now leading the Bank and many other development agencies towards the other form of
unhelpful help, namely, long-term charitable relief. The paper outlines some of the
reasons for the failure of socially engineered economic, legal, and social reforms both in
the developing world and in the post-socialist transition countries. Finally, the argument
is summarized in five structural reasons why the World Bank cannot be
"fixed."
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7 June 2005
Declaration
EuroMemorandum Group
European Economists for an Alternative Economic Policy in Europe
June 2005
After the
French and Dutch No to the Constitution:
The EU needs a new economic and social development strategy.
"The French and Dutch No to
the Constitution opens the window for a thorough reflection and public discussion
about the way in which the people want to live in Europe. The majority of voters have
rejected the elitist project of a European construction, which subordinates the democratic
lives and material well-being of the people to the rules of markets and competition. They
perceived European policies in their real lives as a threat to their economic and social
welfare, as source of increasing insecurity for their work and incomes, as mounting
inequality and injustice and as an obstacle to relevant democratic participation
possibilities in the process of shaping a society which allows them to lead a free and
independent life...".
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Karl Marx (1857)
on:
Production,
consumption, distribution and exchange (circulation)
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Andre
Gunder Frank (1992) on:
Marketing
Democracy in an Undemocratic Market
"Democracy" is in, and
"development" is out as buzzwords for the "Third World." The very
"development" idea and word are in apparently terminal crisis. The new idea to
replace it is "democracy." When Gandhi was asked what he thought of
"Western Civilization," he answered "it would be a good idea." We can
say as much of development and democracy as well. However, for the Third World,
"democracy" is likely to become no more real in the future than
"development," or Western Civilization for that matter, did in the past. Instead
like the latter, "democracy" may well become a flag - or the figleaf - for
continued exploitation and oppression of the South by the North.
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Róbinson Rojas
(1997) on
Basic knowledge on economics
Notes designed for students wanting to understand the basic tenets of textbook economics ( capitalist economics, that is), without
calculus, which is utilised as a disguise to justify a barbaric economic system leading to social exclusion and waste of human and material resources.
The capitalist economic problem: what to produce, how to produce, for whom to produce. Resource allocation: alternative
approaches, the free market versus central planning. The meaning of "resource
allocation" and the main alternative methods of allocating resources.
Concepts for Review: Economic resources, resource allocation, production possibility
curves, supply, demand, competition, profitability and the free market, central planning
and bureaucracy, factors of production, distribution of income, factor mobility
- Sustainable development in a globalized
economy? The odds. 1999
- Sustainable development in a
globalized economy. 1997
- Making sense of development studies
- Notes on the philosophy of the capitalist system
- Notes on economics: assuming scarcity
- Notes on economics: about obscenities, poverty and inequality
- Notes on structural adjustment programmes
- Agenda 21 revisited (notes)
- 15 years of monetarism in Latin America: time to scream
- Latin America: a failed industrial revolution
- Latin America: the making of a fractured society
- Latin America: a dependent mode of production
- The 'adjustment' of the world economy
- The transnational corporate system in the late 1990s
- A market-friendly strategy for development
- Notes on agribusiness in the 1990s
- Transnational corporations in developing countries
- Latin America: blockages to development
- Development Studies: Researching for the big bosses?
- International capital and
intellectual dishonesty
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A typical textbook on capitalist economics:
Introduction to Economic Analysis
by R. Preston McAfee
- California Institute of Technology
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