There is general agreement that the Eurozone crisis has had a devastating impact on countries in Europe’s periphery, especially in the south. This is expressed in record levels of unemployment, social inequality and widespread social deprivation. However, there is little agreement amongst [...]
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As the authors Magnus Ryner and Alan Cafruny state in The European Union and Global Capitalism, ‘this book offers the first synthetic introduction to perspectives on the EU from a critical political economy [CPE] viewpoint’ (p. 3). It does so brilliantly. It uses the multiple crises facing [...]
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Here is the digital audio recording of a research seminar presentation made by Dr Johnna Montgomerie (Goldsmith’s University of London) to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ) at the University of Nottingham on 14 November 2016.
The title of the talk was [...]
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In How the West Came to Rule, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu aim ‘to subvert, and [they] hope displace, the dominant wisdom’ of analyses that focus on the historical origins of capitalist development. Stating that the dominant wisdom is so far ‘an unmistakably Eurocentric history’ [...]
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