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I did get to explain MMT to Emmanuel Wallerstein recently. He was non-committal, saying essentially that he did not understand it. Not in his bailiwick. Oriental Review World Systems And Capitalism: Immanuel Wallerstein’s Legacy Binoy Kampmark

As policymakers, academics, and activists prepare for next month's United Nations climate summit in New York, they should consider precisely what it will take to build a truly sustainable global economy. First and foremost, the world needs a new multidisciplinary approach that is broad enough to tackle the challenge.... Project SyndicatePlanetary Thinking Eric Berglöf

Important. This is the future. Resistance is futile. (Listen up Washington, London, and Paris. The colonial period is over. You are now irrelevant. Get used to it. The alternative is WWIII and MAD.) Incidentally, the post accounts for Chinese opposition to the spread of Christianity in the Central Realm, since it is a vehicle for Western global domination.Asia TimesAll under Heaven, China’s challenge to the Westphalian system Pepe EscobarSee alsoWhat the aftermath of a nuclear WWIII...

Executive summary The high point of global governance was reached in the mid-1990s around the creationof the World Trade Organisation. It was hoped that globalisation would be buttressed by a system of global rules and a network of specialised global institutions. Two decades later these hopes have been dashed by a series of global governance setbacks, the rise of economic nationalism and the dramatic change of attitude of the United States administration. From trade to the environment, a...

Review of ‘Consolation philosophy’ understands the human being as a unity of feeling and reason, in a cosmos rich with primal emotion… Here I offer a brief presentation of this African philosophical synthesis, which I hope will help to resolve the dilemma eloquently put forward in 1997 by professor of philosophy at Penn State University Robert Bernasconi: ‘Either African philosophy is so similar to Western philosophy that it makes no distinctive contribution and effectively disappears; or...

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...