This paper considers the way in which the predominance of neo-liberalism as a social and economic model has framed thinking about the available options with regard to address of the ecological crisis — what is seen as possible, plausible and desirable. The paper specifically argues that...

This paper extends its author's earlier use of Joseph Tainter's theory that a tendency toward diminishing returns on investments in complexity is the source of the collapse of complex societies to analyze the current trend of international economic life, and its implications for international...

"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 compares the recent economic performance of the world at large (particularly with the exception of China set aside) to that of Japan in its "lost decades. On the basis of the GDP growth rate observed since the 2007 financial crisis, and the apparent imminence of a possibly severe...

Extending the author's prior researches regarding the trend of economic growth in the twenty-first century; and in particular the indications of contracting Gross World Product (GWP) since 2012 when the current dollar figures are adjusted using the Consumer Price Index (CPI), in contrast with...

This working paper considers the global redistribution of economic power and defense spending between the 1990s and 2020s--with a focus on the U.S., China and Russia--on the basis of World Bank data, and its implications for the military balance today

This working paper considers certain implications of the U.S. economic boom of the late 1990s, notably how it deflected criticism of the country's neoliberal course for several years, in large part through the expectations it created regarding a digital technology-driven "New Economy," and the...

This note, responding to suggestions that neoliberalism is "in decline" as a guiding ideology of economic policymaking and model of political-economic practice, argues for a reserved attitude toward such claims given their having been so numerous and so consistently incorrect in the past; the...