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Politial Economy
The Economics of Political Change in Developed Countries
Jayati Ghosh

Rising inequality, stagnant real incomes and growing material fragility of daily life have generated a strong sense of dissatisfaction among ordinary people in the developed world who increasingly see themselves as the victims of globalisation.

Economic Integration and Free Mobility of Labour
Prabhat Patnaik
An essential condition for the success of economic integration is free labour mobility over the area that is coming together through such integration.
   
Why the European Union should be Even More Worried about Brexit
C.P. Chandrasekhar and Jayati Ghosh

The economic pressures that may have driven the Brexit vote are also evident in other big European nations. So to survive, the EU must rethink its template for economic policies.

The Brexit is Not Gender Neutral
Gabriele Köhler
This article highlights the gendered implications of the Brexit vote- what it means for women living in Britain or elsewhere in the world.
   
Globalization and the World's Working People
Prabhat Patnaik

Contrary to the impression that Globalization would benefit all, it has actually worsened the conditions of the broad mass of the working people in both parts of the world.

Financialised Capitalism Soviet Style? Varieties of state capture and crisis
Oane Visser and Don Kalb
In their attempt to interpret the failings of the neo-liberal economy, the authors draw some unexpected analogy between contemporary financial capitalism and late Soviet communism before its collapse.
   
After Brexit
C.P. Chandrasekhar
Whatever the long term implications of Brexit are, it could, in the short run, disrupt world trade, and worsen the depressed conditions confronting the current world economy.
What Next for the EU?
Jayati Ghosh
It will be tragic indeed if the EU collapses under the weight of its own contradictions only to yield to the petty and xenophobic forms of national neoliberalism that are currently the most forceful alternative to neoliberal economic integration.
   
The Qualitative Shift in European Integration: Towards permanent wage pressures and a 'Latin-Americanization' of Europe?
Erik S. Reinert and Rainer Kattel

The Brexit vote has ruptured so many political structures so deeply, it could be decades before its damage can be fully reckoned.

Brexit Earthquake has Many Ruptures
Radhika Desai
The Brexit vote has ruptured so many political structures so deeply, it could be decades before its damage can be fully reckoned.
   
European Eastern Enlargement as Europe's Attempted Economic Suicide?
Erik S. Reinert and Rainer Kattel
The authors argue that the process of European economic integration has made a qualitative shift- from a Listian symmetrical economic integration to an integrative and asymmetrical integration.
Brexit: A revolt against the hegemony of globalized finance
Prabhat Patnaik
The British vote to leave the EU will only further undermine the state of confidence of the capitalists and further belie all facile claims of an imminent recovery.
   
Myths, Mix-ups, and Mishandlings: Understanding the Eurozone crisis
Servaas Storm and C.W.M. Naastepad
The real cause of the Eurozone crisis resides in unsustainable private sector debt leverage that was aided and abetted by the liberalization of European financial markets and a global banking glut.
Crisis and Recovery in the German Economy: The real lessons
Servaas Storm, C.W.M. Naastepad
The main lesson to draw from Germany's rebound
from crisis is that if a country's technological competitiveness is stronger and consensual macro-governance structure is more effective, the country will more likely weather a crisis.
   
Societal Involution in the North
Jayati Ghosh
Recent social and political trends in the US and in parts of Europe point to the regressive tendencies that seek to recreate a past that seems less complicated, but manages to intensify unhappiness.
Capitalism and the Oppressed Castes
Prabhat Patnaik
The development of capitalism in any society brings about a complete transformation in the way we look at all social questions including the question of caste oppression.
   
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