"Winner of the 2018 Paul M. Sweezy--Paul A. Baran Memorial Award for original work regarding the political economy of imperialism, 'Value Chains' examines the exploitation of labor in the Global South. Focusing on the issue of labor within global value chains, this book offers a deft empirical...

Konzerne sind immer wieder in Menschenrechtsverletzungen verwickelt, auch deutsche. Sie profitieren von der Ausbeutung der Arbeiter in Textilfabriken in Asien, in Kohlegruben in Südafrika oder beim Bau fragwürdiger Staudammprojekte in Kolumbien. Soziale Errungenschaften sind vergänglich, das...

There is a myth underlying neoclassical economic analysis of a 'Western' economy, which is that in anything but the relatively short run, defined as the length of a business cycle, the economy reaches an equilibrium position determined entirely by supply side factors and unaffected by measures...