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  • | Amartya Sen | MR Online

    Amartya Sen’s work shows us the human cost of capitalist development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on February 10, 2023 by Benjamin Selwyn (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Feb 16, 2023)

    Indian economist Amartya Sen has posed a devastating challenge to the dominant capitalist understanding of development. But Sen’s own analytical framework doesn’t go far enough in exposing the inherently exploitative logic of capitalism.

  • | Photo Jernej Furman | MR Online

    Beating around the bush: polycrisis, overlapping emergencies, and capitalism

    Originally published: Developing Economics on November 22, 2022 by Güney Isikara (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Nov 28, 2022)

    It is in vogue nowadays to describe the multifaceted and intertwined crises of capitalism without referring to capitalism itself. Obscure jargon of ‘overlapping emergencies’ and ‘polycrisis’ are brought up to describe the complexity of the situation, and they serve, with or without intention, to conceal the culprit, namely the totality of capitalist relations.

  • | Pakistan Flood | MR Online

    Floods in Pakistan: Where is the ‘International Community’ for the imperialized zones of the world-system?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on October 15, 2022 by Aasim Sajjad Akhtar (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Oct 17, 2022)

    A spade, as the proverbial saying goes, ought to be called a spade.

  • | On ne développe pas on se développe | MR Online

    Re-embedding the economy to rethink (sustainable) development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on September 8, 2022 by Juliette Alenda (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Sep 13, 2022)

    This famous sentence from Joseph Ki-Zerbo could be translated as ‘we do not enforce development; we develop ourselves.’ However, development paradigms have been largely influenced by external views, mainly those of Western countries.

  • | Photo Socialist Appeal | MR Online

    Neoliberal capitalism and the commodification of social reproduction, from our home to our classroom

    Originally published: Developing Economics on February 8, 2022 by ALEMEZZADRI (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Feb 09, 2022)

    It is official: we are getting ready for another round of industrial action in the UK higher education sector.

  • | The triple day thesis Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor | MR Online

    The triple day thesis: Theorising motherhood as a capability and a capability suppressor

    Originally published: Developing Economics on January 4, 2022 by Elaine Agyemang Tontoh (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jan 06, 2022)

    The triple day thesis of motherhood is conceptualized as a mother who engages in the reproductive work of childbearing and childrearing (the single day), in addition to waged work (the double day) and self-reproductive work (the triple day).

  • | Farming in Karnataka India | MR Online

    Debunking the “Eco-Fortress Nationalism” of the AOC/Markey Green New Deal

    Originally published: Developing Economics on November 26, 2021 by Sheetal Chhabria (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Nov 29, 2021)

    Max Ajl’s ‘People’s Green New Deal’ is a brutal reminder for the American left that even the most celebrated and progressive developments in American politics are still simply American politics, in other words they are a politics for America, and America first.

  • | Economics | MR Online

    Can Joan Robinson’s ideas cast some light on today’s profound economic challenges?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on November 21, 2021 - Cambridge Journal of Economics Special Issue by Carolina Alves and Jan Toporowski (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Nov 24, 2021)

    2023 marks the fortieth year since the passing of Joan Robinson and her one-hundred-and-twentieth anniversary.

  • | Vania Bambirra Image courtesy of Memorial Vania Bambirra UFRGS | MR Online

    Dependency, gender, and race

    Originally published: Developing Economics on September 12, 2021 (more by Developing Economics)  |

    In the classical works of dependency theory, such as the Dialectics of Dependency (Marini 2011 [1973]); Socialism or Fascism (Dos Santos 2018 [1978]); Dependency and Development in Latin America (Cardoso and Faletto 1979) and Latin American Dependent Capitalism (Bambirra 2012 [1978]), race and gender are absent.

  • | Photo by the International Monetary Fund | MR Online

    The Techfare state: The ‘new’ face of neoliberal state regulation

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 15, 2021 by Ali Bhagat and Rachel Phillips (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2021)

    recent article in the New York Times takes aim at ‘How Big Tech Won the Pandemic’, highlighting how in the last year alone, Amazon, Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Facebook posted a combined revenue of more than $1.2 trillion.

  • | From Post Marxism back to Marxism | MR Online

    From post-Marxism back to Marxism?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 5, 2021 by Lucia Pradella (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 08, 2021)

    The catastrophe of the Great War, along with the Russian Revolution of 1917, led to a “second foundation” of Marxism. This was both political, with the birth of the Third International, and theoretical: as Lenin notably said reading Hegel’s Science of Logic in the summer 1914, since no Marxist had seriously engaged with the Logic before, none had really understood Marx’s Capital.

  • | a black background with a trail of drugs Photo by stockmediacc | MR Online

    Center-periphery relationships of pharmaceutical value chains

    Originally published: Developing Economics on May 4, 2021 by Cristina Fróes de Borja Reis and José Paulo Guedes Pinto (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 11, 2021)

    The internationalization of the pharmaceutical industry only rose after the internationalization of patent protection in the Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPs Agreement) (Haakonsson, 2009).

  • | Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development | MR Online

    Intellectual monopoly capitalism and its effects on development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on April 7, 2021 by Cecilia Rikap (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 04, 2021)

    What is new with contemporary (global) leading corporations? If gigantic monopolies are a repeated phenomenon in capitalism’s history, why all the fuss we see every day regarding high concentration?

  • | Can we electrify our way out of climate change or do the rich also need to consume less | MR Online

    Can we electrify our way out of climate change–or do the rich also need to consume less?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on November 10, 2020 by Clair Brown and Jun Wong (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Nov 17, 2020)

    As the Artic sea ice rapidly melts and the communities across the world suffer dire consequences, we are experiencing the tragedies from emitting greenhouse gases from human activities into the atmosphere.

  • | Imperial Federation Map of the World Showing the Extent of the British Empire in 1886 Boston Public Library | MR Online

    What is at stake in the study of settler colonialism?

    Originally published: Developing Economics on October 26, 2020 by Sai Englert (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2020)

    Settler colonialism, those colonial processes based on the aim of permanently settling metropolitan populations on indigenous lands, and–crucially–the struggle against it, have been at the centre of many of the key political developments of the last three decades.

  • | The Social Relations Dilemma | MR Online

    The Social (Relations) Dilemma

    Originally published: Developing Economics on October 19, 2020 by Aabid Firdausi (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Oct 31, 2020)

    The Social Dilemma that is currently streaming on Netflix has garnered much attention by raising a single question–how have we come to accept as normal the fact that a few hundred tech-enthusiasts in Silicon Valley has had an unprecedented impact on billions of lives around the world? Directed by Jeff Orlowski, the Social Dilemma features tech industry insiders raising ethical concerns about business models that shape our everyday digital experience.

  • | Photo by Johnny Silvercloud | MR Online

    Abolition will not be randomized

    Originally published: Developing Economics on June 15, 2020 by Anastasia Wilson and Casey Buchholz (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Jun 18, 2020)

    In the wake of the current uprising in support of Black Lives Matter, there has been increasing interest in the use of mainstream empirical methods in economics–like randomized control trials (RCTs) and administrative data evaluation–to address issues of racism and violence in the institution of policing.

  • | Sanyals Rethinking Capitalist Development | MR Online

    Is postcolonial capitalism a thing to itself? Reviewing Sanyal’s – Rethinking Capitalist Development

    Originally published: Developing Economics on May 12, 2020 by Srishti Yadav (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted May 13, 2020)

    In all, Sanyal’s work is engaging, remarkable in its cross-disciplinarity, and fresh. Though its influence has been concentrated in Indian academia, I urge my colleagues elsewhere to give it a read. It will definitely make you think.

  • | Photo by Anna Shvets from Pexels | MR Online

    Corporate planning in the coronavirus economy

    Originally published: Developing Economics on April 24, 2020 by Terry Hathaway (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Apr 30, 2020)

    In this blog post, I want to connect what we’re currently seeing in the retail sector during this pandemic to deep-seated narratives about the nature of economic exchange, in particular to the notion of “the market”.

  • | Photo Paula Kindsvater | MR Online

    A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic

    Originally published: Developing Economics on April 20, 2020 by Alessandra Mezzadri (more by Developing Economics)  | (Posted Apr 23, 2020)

    As the COVID-19 health crisis deepens, it looks increasingly clear that the short-term collapse in global output is likely to exceed that of any recession in the last 150 years–that is, in the entire history of capitalism. The ILO estimates that the crisis will lead to the destruction of 195 million jobs. Hence, after discussing at length the epidemiology of the COVID-19 pandemic, media attention is now increasingly focused on how to restart the global economic engine.

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