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For a critical history of poverty finance: Placing neoliberalism in colonial capitalism

Nick Bernards | August 9, 2022

In this short blog post, I want to make the case for why a critical study of ‘poverty finance’ is crucial to understanding neoliberalism and its limits, following the publication of my new book A Critical History of Poverty Finance.

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Relative surplus populations and the crises of contemporary capitalism

Nick Bernards | Susanne Soederberg | November 23, 2021

Over the last decade, there has been a dramatic increase in engagements with Marx’s concept of relative surplus populations (RSPs). The RSP describes the portion of the working-age population surplus to the immediate needs of capital for waged labour at any given place and time. Revived [...]

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