Abstract This paper offers a political economy interpretation of the covid -19 pandemic, framed around its relationship to dynamics, contradictions and limitations global neoliberalism. It argues that pandemic emerged in context growing inequalities deepening crises neoliberal economies their systems, is likely reinforce exclusionary tendencies current phase capitalism, with detrimental implica...

For most of the twentieth century, comparative economics asked one question: capitalism or socialism? The particulars of the question took many forms, both: positive and normative, from stark contrasts to shaded nuances (e.g., 'the mixed economy'), but the central theme was always planning versus markets. By contrast, the 'new comparative economics' (e.g., Djankov, et al. 2003) draws on diverse...

The paper discusses why on the one hand William Edmundson thinks that market socialism is superior to property-owning democracy, while other Alan Thomas an egalitarian version of democracy socialism. For purpose this discussion, concepts and are systematized it argued those concepts, as understood by Rawls, do not exhaust list possible alternatives capitalism state Economic mandatory workplace ...

With war in the Middle East and the prospect of terrorist attacks at sites ranging from major airports to the local shopping mall, it may be appropriate to remind ourselves that much of the world is experiencing an extended period of peace. Indeed, developed countries have not fought each other since the Second World War. This peace is unusual because powerful nations are historically the most ...

This article offers a critical assessment of Jürgen Habermas’s discourse theory of democracy. It suggests that the main thrust of a discursive account of legitimacy is the attempt to show how the demands of maximal democratic inclusion might be reconciled with a politics of reasoned agreements. While this aim is endorsed, the thrust of the argument is that a critical theory of democracy require...