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Paul Zarembka, Series Editor
Paul Cooney Seisdedos, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Ecuador Radhika Desai, University of Manitoba, Canada Thomas Ferguson, University of Massachusetts at Boston, U.S.A. Virginia Fontes, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Seongjin Jeong, Gyeongsang National University, South Korea Jie Meng, Fudan University, People's Republic of China Isabel Monal, University of Havana, Cuba Ndongo Samba Sylla, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung, Dakar, Senegal Jan Toporowski, SOAS, University of London, U.K. Paul Zarembka, 2021 ![]() ![]() "... highly recommended both to specialists in Marx’s ideas and to the wider reading public." — J. D. White | |
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Volume 38 (2023) IMPERIALISM AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH'S DEBT Editor: Ndongo Samba Sylla, Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Senegal The Covid-19 pandemic has brought the nagging issue of the Global South's debt back into the spotlight. With declining export earnings and tax revenues, many countries in Africa, Latin America and Asia have found themselves objectively unable to service their foreign currency debt. This situation, reminiscent of the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, is the backdrop of the 38th volume of the Research in Political Economy series edited by Ndongo Samba Sylla.
In Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt, expert contributions connect the history of this issue with a range of factors including class dynamics, the changing landscape of sovereign debt markets, the global liquidity cycle, the enduring constraints of commodity dependence, ecological sustainability and the limitations of the current ad hoc sovereign debt restructuring procedures. In contrast to orthodox accounts that view debt crises in the Global South as a cyclical problem or as consequences of 'mismanagement' or 'fiscal irresponsibility'. Imperialism and the Political Economy of Global South’s Debt recognises the systemic nature of the Global South’s external debt, revealed only further by the economic uncertainty of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the need to analyse it in relation to existing imperialist structures.
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(beginning in 1977): Commodification: Animals (#35) National Question; Crisis (#26) Transitions in Latin Amer. (#24) Hidden History of 9-11 (#23), Capitalist Dynamics (#18)
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Preface
The Political Economy of Debt in the Global South: The Case of Argentina (2001–2022)
Can Debt Be Sustainable, if Life Isn’t? Argentina’s Debt Crisis and Social Reproduction
Colonial Hangover in Global Financial Markets: Eurobonds, China, and African Debt
Tightening the Grip: Foreign Creditors and Sudan’s Political Transition (2019–2022)
Refusing to Improve: Sovereign Debt Repayment Difficulties and the Political Economy of Inertia in UNCTAD 1964–1979
Limits of Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanisms and Possible Alternatives
Managing the Balance-of-Payments Constraint: Dilemmas and Perspectives
Imperialism and Global South’s Debt: Insights From Modern Monetary Theory, Ecological Economics, and Dependency Theory
China and Debt-Trap Diplomacy: A Brief Assessment
Index 238 pages, 2023 | |
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Statement of Purpose: This RESEARCH annual is founded on analyzing society in a manner consistent with the importance of the role of class. International in scope, the annual volumes deal primarily with economic and political issues and the unity between them. Both theoretical and empirical works are included. While published papers must be appropriate for developing class analysis of society, they need not be explicitly marxist. The RESEARCH can accept longer works and thus, in addition to usual journal length papers, may be appropriate for work which is not book length, yet is substantial. For submissions, please send your paper electronically, double-spaced typed with notes as endnotes followed by a reference list, to the volume's editor or general editor. Usual practice is review by two competent persons, on a double-blind basis, within a relatively short period of time.
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Marx's Value, Price, and Profit (Abridged): An Introduction to the Theory of Capitalism provides an introduction to substance of his argument.
The Marx-Engels Library has provided the very useful service of on-line text of much of Marx's writings (including Capital, Volume 1)
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Biographies and texts of writings of some 100 major figures in the history of economic/social thought, including Marx, Engels, Lenin, Luxemburg and many writers who were the focus of Marx's attention, are provided on the Akamac Web Site. An extensive Lenin on-line library is available at the V.I. Lenin Library.
A modern, popular presentation of issues surrounding Marx for the 21st century is available in the near hundred-page Special Issue "La pensée de Marx", Le Nouvel Observateur, October/November 2003.
Links closely related to the R.P.E. include the Monthly Review, founded in 1948 as an independent socialist magazine (with a lead article by Albert Einstein) and including a book press, and Union for Radical Political Economics, founded in 1968 to support interest in radical analysis of political and economic topics and publishing the Review of Radical Political Economy.
In the U.K., we point to the Conference of Socialist Economists, a membership organisation founded in 1970, and its journal Capital & Class, published three times a year since 1977,
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Articles by Paul Zarembka on U.S.'s September 11th, following upon R.P.E., Volume 23:
"An Introduction to September 11"
"Evidence of Insider Trading before September 11th Re-examined"
"Critique of David Ray Griffin regarding Calls from 9-11 Planes"
"A Challenge to Geopolitical Economy: September 11th and Conspiracy Theory"
at Socialism and Democracy: "Marxism, Conspiracy, and 9-11" (with David MacGregor)
at Truth and Shadows: "A Novel Idea: Rebekah Roth's Methodical Illusion and What Happened to the Planes on 9-11"