This paper examines the rise and fall of a financial instrument that functioned in Colombia from 1972 to 1999. The UPAC system—standing for Unidad de Poder Adquisitivo Constante, or Unit of Constant P...

Banking on the Ruins of Empire: Developing Global Finance in Kuwait and Singapore

Recent economic, democratic and geopolitical events have raised the question of ‘the state' anew, as problems of territory, sovereignty, protectionism, borders, authoritarianism and surveillance ha...

That concrete box off the freeway wasn’t designed for storage so much as capture. It’s a disappearing machine. We need to see it clearly.

The History & Political Economy (HPE) Project invites applications from PhD students and early-career scholars for our 2026 summer research grant.

Melinda Cooper and Quinn Slobodian discuss the depredations of Jeffrey Epstein, America's billionaire patriarchs, and the far right

I have spent my life interpreting capitalism in order to build an alternative

Call for Papers 51st Annual Meeting of the Social Science History Association The Atlanta Hilton, Atlanta, Georgia – November 19th-22nd, 2026 Submission Dea ...

The East African country is making use of cheap hydropower and Chinese electric vehicles to ditch the internal combustion engine.

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

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BlackRock Inc.’s Global Infrastructure Partners has teamed up with EQT AB in its bid to acquire power company AES Corp., according to people familiar with the matter.

The collapse happened Wednesday due to heavy rains at the rebel-controlled Rubaya mines. Congo is a major supplier of coltan, which contains a key component in the production of smartphones.

Building on earlier initiatives, this reading group was launched in 2014 within the Department of Political Economy at the University of Sydney to provide a regular focus on classics of heterodox poli...

Deep political-economic transformations are causing recurrent waves of unrest, with no long-term solution in sight.

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(Post-)Growth Infrastructures. Guest Editors: Malcolm Campbell-Verduyn and Matthias Kranke. Volume 54, Issue 4 of Economy and Society

Bench Ansfield in conversation with Andrew Anastasi

Data from World Inequality Report also showed top 10% of income-earners earn more than the other 90%