This paper presents an introduction to the concept of systems of provision (sop) and illustrates some of the core themes by applying the sop framework to the study of the financialisation of housing and water. The sop approach considers consumption to be part of a chain of activity interlinked...

<title>Abstract</title> Hodgson's review of our books argues against us that marginalism neither adopted methodological individualism nor excluded the social from economics. Thus, he finds a partial solution to sickonomics in abandoning the term methodological individualism and using both structures and...

The New Growth Path (NGP) is the symbolic policy document of South Africa's newly formed Department of Economic Development. It marks an intended break with the growth path of the first two decades of the post-apartheid era. But does it do so in principle and is it likely to do so in practice?...

Drawing upon the long-run solutions to a number of models in which there are economies of scale and differing degrees of intra-sectoral competition, conditions are found under which an industry's development will spread to further countries and under which the domestic industry should be...

Southeast Asia: The Human Landscape of Modernization and Development. By Jonathan Rigg. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.xxv + 326.£45 and £14.99. ISBN 0 415 13920 1 and 13921 X Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. By Philip J. Williams and Knut Walter....

The World Development Report (WDR) for 2009, Reshaping Economic Geography, is assessed through four distinct but overlapping prisms. One is of economics imperialism, the colonisation of the other social sciences by neoclassical economics in general, of which the new economic geography is one...

Within the framework of Marxist political economy, financialization is understood through the prisms of logical, theoretical, and historical perspectives. It is defined in terms of the increasing presence of interest bearing capital, as distinct from credit as such, the role this plays in real...