Heterodox
It is Wednesday and just a collection of snippets today. I am trying to finish a major piece of work and so that is what I am mostly doing today. And learning to program Geojson formats in R, so I can overcome the decision by Google to abandon their fusion table facility, which my research centre has relied on for some years to display map layers. And I have some press interviews to deal with. But today we consider the claim by the Financial Times editorial the other day that “Radical...
Read More »Dev Nathan — Imperialism in the 21st Century — Global Value Chains and International Labour Arbitrage
MR Online Imperialism in the 21st Century — Global Value Chains and International Labour Arbitrage Dev Nathan Originally published: Economic & Political Weekly (Vol. 53, Issue No. 32, August 11, 2018)
Read More »Andreas Dombret — A stairway to heaven? The promises and limits of global integration
The speech is not short but it is important considering this is the Bundesbank.The conclusion at least is a must read. 7. Conclusion Ladies and gentlemen I was born in the United States, grew up in Germany, and spent much of my life working around the world, including London. Personally, the backlash against the integration of our global community has shattered my core beliefs and worries me deeply. But I accept that global economic integration has gone too far. Theoretically, it may be...
Read More »Reuters — Trump administration says U.S. mistakenly backed China WTO accession in 2001
The United States mistakenly supported China’s membership of the World Trade Organization in 2001 on terms that have failed to force Beijing to open its economy, the Trump administration said on Friday as it prepares to clamp down on Chinese trade. “It seems clear that the United States erred in supporting China’s entry into the WTO on terms that have proven to be ineffective in securing China’s embrace of an open, market-orientated trade regime,” the administration said in an annual...
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