Category: Capitalism
-
Holland: The Overreaching Empire
In which we examine the Golden Age founding myth of success: a toll booth built on moral ambiguity.
-
Authority Bureaucracy Capitalism Church Class Colonialism Commodity Culture Debt Drama Early Modern Economics Empire Exploration Fascism History Immigration Literature Mexico Monarchy Money Naples Nation State Nationhood Novel Painting Peru Plays Political Economy Post-Colonialism Power Renaissance Republic Resistance Spain State
Spain: The Self Examined Empire
In which we explore the relationship between centres and peripheries in Spain through Empire and beyond.
-
Argentina: Informal Empire
In which we examine the legacy of Spanish and British empire in Argentina.
-
You Can Buck the Market
In which we discuss how “the market” became something you can’t argue with. P.S. You actually can.
-
Empire: The Company That Became a Country
The political economy of the British Empire. Finance capital, informal empire, administrative afterlife.
-
Stop Getting Bond Wrong 3
In which we examine how Bond’s actors responded to changing notions of masculinity and the world around them.
-
Stop Getting Bond Wrong 1
In which we examine the Bond film franchise through our lens of political and cultural economy.
-
PIG IRON: The Great Transformation
In which we explain how Polanyi shows that the regulating mechanisms of capitalism are constructed not inevitable.
-
PIG IRON: The Big Bets
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. In which we show that International co-operation can happen when Capital wants it to
-
PIG IRON 10: The Antithesis
Essays in Dignity and Political Economy. In which we set out the objections to our views.
At Home He Feels Like A Tourist 