Economics
John Rapley: Economics as a moral tale
The development sector set out to summon the magic of capitalism from the ashes of communism. How is it going? Read here
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Economics
John Rapley: Twilight of the Money Gods
John Rapley does an excellent job of presenting the seminal elements of his book Twilight of the Money Gods in a few minutes. See our book review.
Economics
John Rapley – Democracy Was Never All It Was Cut Out to Be Anyhow
Has democracy simply become a ploy to protect the haves from the increasingly have-nots. If so, its best sell by date seems to be approaching. John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight […]
Economics
John Rapley – How the Great Recession Destroyed Our Faith in Economists
People are angry with economists. They gave their blessings to the run up to the Great Financial Crisis, and then solved it by redistributing massive amounts of wealth from the 99% to the 1%. We […]
Economics
John Rapley – The Bitcoin Mania
Bitcoin “hacked into the global financial system to reveal the dirty little secret of the neoliberal age – namely, that this economy is increasingly built on illusions and conjuring tricks.” John Rapley is a political […]
EU politics
John Rapley – Britain’s Slow Suicide Sort of Makes Sense
John Rapley is a political economist and author of ‘Twilight of the Money Gods’, which was reviewed in BRAVE NEW EUROPE Cross-posted from John’s blog brixtonsubversity We at Brave New Europe don’t take a position on […]
Economics
Twilight of the Money Gods – Economics as a Religion and How it all Went Wrong by John Rapley
Book Review by Mathew D. Rose In 1944 two German philosophers, Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer, having fled from Nazi Germany to the United States, published their book The Dialectic of Enlightenment. It analysed […]
Economics
John Rapley – Getting Used to Terror
I posted this article two years ago, in the wake of a coordinated series of terrorist attacks in Paris. Re-reading it after yesterday’s attack in New York, it seems as relevant to me now as […]