This note extends the author's prior statistical examination of the reorientation of the U.S. economy toward the financial sector (in its share of investment, activity, assets over the neoliberal period) with an examination of its share of profit-making as a share of GDP in itself, relative to...

This paper offers a comprehensive consideration of the economic policies of the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) with regard to answering the question "Was it neoliberal?"

This paper, based on the author's prior work, endeavors to condense into a brief, succinct discussion of the resourcing of Britain's military position, discussed here as "semi-superpower status," in the 1945-1971 period

This paper considers the background to the subject of the sixth generation jet fighter plane now under development for several countries' armed forces, situating it within the context of the "generational" classification system for such aircraft, and the political, military and economic context...

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...

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...

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...