Debt: The First 500 Pages
We need more grand histories. But 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
Mike Beggs is an editor at Jacobin and a lecturer in political economy at the University of Sydney.
We need more grand histories. But 5,000 years of anecdotes is no substitute for real political economy.
In the long run we are all dead, but not all at the same time.
Occupy Wall Street has thrown off many sparks. A little one landed in academic economics.

The arrogance of Marxist economists.
A review of Eric Hobsbawm's How to Change the World.