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

"'What is Neoliberalism? And What Has it Meant?': A Primer" endeavors to offer the reader a broad understanding of what has in recent years become the controversial idea, "neoliberalism," on the basis of four claims it makes, explains and defends. These are, namely,1. Neoliberalism is a distinct...

This working paper extends the author's prior analysis of recent data on Gross Domestic Product with a region-by-region examination of the World Bank's time series for selected regions and countries over the 1961-2019 period, with a focus on the trend post-Great Recession--emphasizing the...

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...

"The Neoliberal Record: Growth: A Second Look" is a follow-up to analyses the author published in 2018 and 2019. It specifically reexamines the available time series' on Gross World Product for the sake of fuller evaluation of the performance of the neoliberal era within the longer-run of modern...

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 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 working paper, for the sake of a fuller appreciation of the expectations of a unipolar world order in the twenty-first century and their implications, considers the trend of U.S. economic and world growth in the 1990s, and the expectations of its continuation for decades or longer, and...