The Manichaean character of economics. Charles Kindleberger. Abstract: Economics is said to have adopted a certain degree of dualism. None of its tenets have been absolute in terms of social effectivity. To survive in an economic ...

Financial Crisis The financial distress of the last two decades has revived interest on the question of the stability of the financial system. On the one hand, the "pessimist" view, associated primarily with Minsky argues that not only that the financial system is prone to such crises ("financial...

Are multinational companies really taking power away from nation states in some sweeping processes of 'globalisation'?"The implications for the ability of nation states to exercise political and economic control over this trans-national economy are clear, they would be at the mercy of automated and ...