This paper examines the cliams of Keir Starmer's election to the Labour Party leadership as a Blairite and neoliberal "restoration" by way of an examination of two of Starmer's key statements, namely his ten pledges in the party's February 2020 leadership contest, and his February 2021 "New...

"Investments in Societal Complexity, Diminishing Marginal Returns and Neoliberalism: A Note" discusses the switch from "Keynesian Fordism" to "Neoliberal Financialization" as the organizing model for economic policy from the 1970s on, and the consequences for the world economy as understood via...

This note offers a brief consideration of the quantitative data regarding U.S. manufacturing's net output (i.e. "value added") in aggregate and per capita terms, and shows that while some of the relevant data give an impression of strength, the long-term trend with regard to output, assets and...

This paper, in response to the renewed fashion for Keynesian policy, discusses the special mid-century circumstances associated with Keynesianism's greatest period of success, and the contrast it makes with the present, stressing in particular the ways in which the neoliberal shift has come on...

This brief note raises the complex matter of the concept of rent-seeking, particularly as it connects with the author's prior discussion of Keynesian Fordism and Neoliberal Financialization. In doing so the author argues that where Keynesian Fordism, in line with its leveraging of the...