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 note considers cryptocurrency's emergence and development as a symbol of the economic thrust of the neoliberal era--in its vision of the liberation of economic activity from the state, the limits of place, "materiality" and association with "real economic activity," and the opacity for...

In this working paper the author examines the U.S.' "tech boom" of the late 1990s, particularly from the standpoint of the way in which it was explained to the public by mainstream commentators, and the expectations they aroused. Central to that examination is the way that this understanding and...

This note discusses the concept of "quasi-middle classness"--a situation differing from middle classness in that the individual or household in question enjoys a level and "style" of consumption associated with middle class persons (e.g. they own a house and car), but does not enjoy other...

This note, a follow-up to the author's earlier consideration of German and Japanese announcements of greatly enlarged defense spending in 2022 (German and Japanese "Rearmament" in Context:A Note on German and Japanese Defense Spending Plans in the Wake of the Russo-Ukrainian War), addresses...

This note, in light of the longstanding relationship between naval might and great power status, evaluates the shift of the U.S. and Soviet/Russian navies between 1990 and 2020 in regard to naval combatant numbers and tonnage. The analysis extends from overall numbers and tonnage to specific...

This note, referencing the author's prior discussion of the "Keynesian Fordist" and "Neoliberal Financialization" growth models, discusses the implications of each from a class and consumption standpoint, noting that where Keynesian Fordism was associated with a considerable growth in a...