This brief note, a response to increased interest in and discussion of the relative strengths of the U.S. and Chinese navies, makes a comparison between the two navies on the basis of the tonnages of those fleets, and the tonnages of the differing types of ships comprising them, rather than the...

In this note the author discusses the trend of French manufacturing value added since the 1970s in aggregate, per capita and per member-of-the-working-age population terms and compares it with what the same figures for other major advanced industrial countries over the same period. The author...

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...

This note, addressing the often ambiguous definition of "middle classness," offers the concept of "quasi-middle classness" to the end of helping clarify the issue. What distinguishes quasi-middle classness from middle classness in this analysis is that quasi-middle classness is more narrowly a...

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...

This article considers the evolution of images of the future — the "flying cars" of mid-century and the promises of freedom, empowerment and uplift for all more recently identified with the Internet, virtual reality and the Singularity — and explains the image, and their associated...

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...

Since at least 2016, and certainly in 2019, it was common for economists to write of the U.S. economy being at "full employment." This paper undertakes a critical examination of the data relevant to the question as it stood in early 2019, considering the multiplicity of employment measures;...

Advocates of orthodox (i.e. neoliberal) economic policy have often pointed to the economic performance of the U.S. as indicative of those policies' superior results. This paper critically examines such claims by comparing U.S. economic performance in the neoliberal era with its prior performance...

"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...