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This is the story of Susan Strange and Hyman Minsky, two renegade economists who spent a lifetime warning of a global financial crisis. When it hit in 2008, a decade
French geopolitics in Africa is interested in natural resources. Initially, the franc zone was set as a colonial monetary system by issuing currency in the colonies because France wanted to avoid transporting cash.
By Aabid Firdausi. The euphoria around international trade and the general consensus regarding capitalism’s inevitable sustenance among countries of the Global South is at least partly due to the
In a speech showing no regard to Cuban’s historical sensitivities, Trump announced from Miami that he was “canceling the last administration’s completely one-sided deal with Cuba.” By that he meant
The importance of Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) in the context of economic development has slowly come to grasp people’s attention. The World Bank defines IFFs as “money illegally earned, transferred,
In one of Donald Trump’s rants, he claimed the reason why there are so many German cars in the U.S. is that their automakers do not behave fairly. The German
The work of Hyman Minsky highlighted the essential role of finance in the capital development of an economy. The greater a nation’s reliance on debt relative to internal funds, the
The global system has seen two major shocks in 2016: the Brexit vote and Trump. What these events have in common is their populist rhetoric that promised to bring back
When Oxfam’s 2016 Davos Report revealed that 62 people own half of the global wealth many were shocked by this finding and attributed it to high poverty levels in low-income
The shortcomings and false promises of mainstream economics are impossible to ignore in the context of the Brexit vote and Trump’s success in the Republican primaries, with working and middle
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Aabid Firdausi
Alessandro Bonetti
Athullya Roytman
Baptiste Albertone
Brad Voracek
Breshay Moore
Carlos Maciel
Celine Tcheng
Chantal Line Carpentier
Christina Refhilwe Mosalagae
Daniella Medina
Domenico Viola
Diego Castañeda Garza
Elham Saeidinezhad
Hannah Dewhirst
Jack Gao
Jimmy Chin
Johnny Fulfer
Justin Harbour
Kanya Paramaguru
Kevin Cashman
Kurt Semm
Lara Merling
Mariamawit Fantahun
Michael Joffe
Oscar Valdes-Viera
Patrick Kaczmarczyk
Pierre Ortlieb
Raghunath Nageswaran
Selim Yaman
Sergio Chaparro Hernández
Shyam Soundarajan
Soo-hyun Lee
Stephanie Attar
Steve Grumbine
Vitor Mello
