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 paper extends the author's prior use of Joseph Tainter's theorizing on complexity and diminishing returns to the upsurge in political and economic nationalism and international conflict seen since 2008

This 2011 article attempts to put the post-Cold War period (1990-2010) into perspective and argues for its having been defined by six key trends: 1. The receding of great power conflict 2. A shift from interstate to intrastate warfare, with both forms of conflict concentrated on the system's...

This 2004 paper started with the then oft-made comparison between the War on Terror and World War II and explicitly asked the implicit question — the ability of the U.S. to sustain a World War II-like mobilization for military or other purposes. It concluded that the trend with regard to...

This working paper addresses the matter of Japan's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth from 1990 on (and in particular the slowness of its growth relative to other advanced industrial states). Taking into account the sharp contraction of its working-age population, it presents calculations of...

This working paper takes up the subject of the highly publicized announcements of the German and Japanese governments of sharply increasing their defense spending and puts it into context. In particular it considers1. The longer history of Germany and Japan's movement away from their post-World...

This note, acknowledging the ambiguities in the discussion of deindustrialization due to the scarcity of data on countries' real manufacturing output over time, considers Britain's output between the 1970s and the present as calculated in 2015 U.S. dollars both through the use of deflators to...

This paper extends the author's prior use of CPI-adjusted current dollar figures to examine American and British deindustrialization by similarly using the method to adjust United Nations current dollar figures regarding these nations' manufacturing output alongside the data for Germany and...

This working paper takes up the question of the "decline" of the neoliberal economic model. Acknowledging the reality of not only the generally weak growth during which that model has prevailed (from the late 1970s on) but the post-Great Recession slowdown in that growth, with its implications...