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E-Public Services
The ‘e’ in the title refers to electronic as in e-commerce and e-Government. Reflecting on our own development, only 25 years ago avant-garde public...
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Fictitious Capital
According to Marx, fictitious capital is shares and bonds of corporations and states, whose buying includes the legal right for participation in...
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Neoliberalisation and Regulatory Restructuring in South Africa’s Commercial Agriculture
The notion of ‘neoliberalism’ has been widely deployed to describe the resurgence of market-orientated institutional shifts and policy realignments...
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“1929”
A young economist working at the UK Treasury on war finance ended up attending the 1919 Peace Conference in Versailles. His name was John Maynard...
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Post-pandemic Realities
This chapter reviews the impact of COVID-19 across the economy, politics and the dominant ideologies. The economic contraction caused by the pandemic...
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Finance Capital and Militarism as Pillars of Contemporary Capitalism
This chapter analyses two pillars of theories of imperialism, namely finance capital and militarism, and their place in contemporary capitalism. It...
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Global Finance
The Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution ushered in what is often referred to as a first age of globalisationGlobalisation. By this is...
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Credit
An essential use of modern credit is the advance through an owner of money capital (or in the case of the banks, the non-owners of money capital) to...
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Post-Keynesian Explanations of Money Price
In this chapter I outline and critically evaluate the Post-Keynesian (PK) explanation of the money price of a commodity. The basic argument I develop...
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The Evolution of Financialisation
First, this chapter discusses to what extent financialisation is a recurring phenomenon. The historical evidence shows that episodes of rapid...
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The Role of House Prices and Transactions in Monetary Policy Transmission: The Case of Italy
The housing market is a key channel for monetary policy transmission. The literature has focused mainly on cyclical fluctuations in house prices...
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Introduction: The Financial Crisis, the Covid-19 Pandemic and the Future of Economics
The introduction outlines the main issues discussed in individual chapters: the critique of the mainstream and orthodox economic approaches following...
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Conclusions
The conclusion highlights the factors now characterising the development of all kinds of organisations with which citizens interact directly or...
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Marx and the Environment
I first briefly reiterate the purpose of the book: to demonstrate the crucial role that the qualitative theory of value and the associated concept of...
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Graziani, Augusto (1933–2014)
Augusto Graziani was one of the leading Italian economists of the twentieth century, extensively involved in the development of an alternative...
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Development Banking in Côte d'Ivoire: The Case of the Banque Nationale d'Investissement
This chapter presents a case study on a national development bank in Côte d'Ivoire, namely, the Banque Nationale d'Investissement (BNI). The study...
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Is Religion a Determinant of Financial Development?
Studies on the determinants of financial development have been silent on the role of religion. Growing evidence in the literature about how financial...
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Finance and Health
The business of health care is currently undergoing a profound transformation. Global finance is forcing transformation of the public policies as...
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COVID-19 in an African Context: What the Pandemic Has Taught Us About the Development Economics Curriculum and the Need for Reform
The public health response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Africa has been inseparable from economic concerns. The economic impact of COVID-19 has...