On Bob Dylan.

Serbia’s unrest.

Are-reading of Production of Commodities by means of Commodities has confirmed my initial impression that it is ‘things’ rather than ‘subjects’ which move around in Sraffa’s construction. In other ...

Could American technofeudalism therefore turn out to be a fragile Leviathan? Will Trump’s return to power be remembered as a ...

The long route from the informal shop-floor democracy of the first Briggs strike to the boardroom wheeling-dealing of the 1950 settlement, and the corresponding dilution and displacement of rank and ...

On Joseph Stiglitz.

The only uncertainty was the identity of the runner-up, with a number of candidates vying for position: Nicolae Ciucă of the ...

Art is for making games’, he writes, ‘that’s the message for today’. But even among his admirers it feels as if there’s a lingering misconception about Raworth: that because his work is funny, ...

If only the lords of Silicon Valley had read their Aftalion, who had compared the rhythm of investment to people stacking ...

Up till the 1970s, the notion that the Rest would follow in the footsteps of the West was intrinsic to the dominant development paradigm. Through industrialization and urbanization, the ...

Hearing of Weber’s death in 1920, many in the German academic community might have thought the news referred to Alfred Weber, Professor of Economics at the University of Heidelberg. While his elder ...

'Nowadays, national literature doesn’t mean much: the age of world literature is beginning, and everybody should contribute to hasten its advent.’ This was Goethe, of course, talking to Eckermann in ...