Capitalism

Wasted, ravaged, destroyed: a plea for an end to this disastrous economic model.

January 2011

Capitalism is the greatest waste machine invented by mankind: the natural resources of our planet have been plundered, and the social costs are enormous. 

Waste and capitalism

January 2011

How the current economic model wastes people, communities, resources and money.

The resistible rise of corporate power

October 2010

The massive concentration and growth of corporate power poses a major threat to what remains of public services, highlighting the ever-deepening crisis of democracy, and the urgent need for people to reclaim the state.

Histories of the Present: Giovanni Arrighi, the Longue Duree of Geohistorical Capitalism, and the Current Crisis

July 2009
The range and scope of Giovanni Arrighi’s intellectual work – and in particular his ability to provide analysis rooted in a long-term geohistorical context - is truly an astonishing achievement,while his generosity of spirit towards his intellectual interlocutors had few equals.

If not capitalism, what?

November 2008
This moment of collapse of banks and their total dependence on public authorities is the moment to turn them into public utilities.