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Behind the Lebanese apocalypse

Posted on 29th September 2020 by Richard Donnelly

On 4 August a massive explosion shook Beirut port when a neglected storehouse of ammonium nitrate blew up, catapulting Lebanon onto the front pages of the global media. The volatile chemical was being stored next to the country’s main grain… Continue Reading →

Article Arab revolution, finance, Lebanon, Middle East, The Economic Crisis

Beating the bond vigilantes

Posted on 15th April 2020 by Richard Donnelly

A review of Grace Blakeley, Stolen: How to Save the World from Financialisation Grace Blakeley (Repeater, 2017), £10.99. Stolen is a very comprehensive and readable account of the roots of financialisation in the 1970s crisis, which ended the “golden age”… Continue Reading →

Book reviews Economics, finance, Keynesianism, neoliberalism
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