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Series are collections of works published by Phenomenal World on a single subject or area of research. Series are commissioned to analyze particular issues or historical moments, and are either ongoing projects or collected as one-time volumes.
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The economist Albert Hirschmann suggested in 1985 that varied state responses to inflation defined the global political economy of the second half of the twentieth century. In the second decade of the twenty-first, following the disruptions of the Covid-19 pandemic, rising prices—and struggles over how…
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This series of posts is collected in Phenomenal World Volumes 001: Market Economy, Market Society: Interviews and Essays on the Decline of European Social Democracy edited by Maya Adereth, and featuring contributions from Adam Przeworski, Stephanie Mudge, David Broder, Juan Andrade, and Jonah Birch. The interviews and…
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The explosion of student loan debt is a defining feature of the contemporary American political economy; for many among the generation of American college-goers who came of age in the lead-up and shadow of the Great Recession, it is a defining feature of their lives.…
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Many of the processes that are reshaping the global political economy find stark expression in Latin America—the extraction of key minerals for green technologies, the transformation of vast tracts of land for monocrop agriculture, the ravages of climate catastrophe, the rise of the new right,…
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Despite the growing complexity of the global financial system, existing economic theory remains prone to explaining financial instability after the fact—leaving the structural aspects of derivatives markets, payment systems, and collateral supply chains unexplored. Only when financial crises occur do the details of financial markets…
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The largest private-sector employers in the United States today are a mix of retail and parcel companies that have all built out sophisticated logistical operations. In the post-war era, the largest employers were all in manufacturing, and warehousing and distribution were both seen merely as…
The fourth edition of the UN Financing for Development (FfD4) conference concluded in Seville earlier this month. Once the Trump Administration withdrew from the event, UN member states agreed on the outcome document, the Compromiso de Sevilla, an unprecedented two weeks ahead of the final…
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