MER Article Global Economic Integration Conventional definitions imagine world trade as taking places among nations -- international trade, it is called. Convention also holds that everyone is best off when such trade is carried on as freely as possible. Neither the definition nor the polemic of free traders has changed much, except for a Doug Henwood • 7 min read
MER Article After the Cold War, Economic War? If the Cold War can be said to have had any virtues, at least it kept the major capitalist powers from each others’ throats. Of course, this peace came at some cost -- repression and manipulation of client states, proxy wars in the Third World, squandering money on weapons of unimaginable horror, an Doug Henwood • 7 min read