Author: SPERI Research Team
Blog: Corporate Power & the Global Economy
Corporations sit at the heart of contemporary capitalism. They command vast resources, govern entire swaths of our economy, and wield immense political power. For instance, the 2017 sales of Walmart, the world’s top retailer, was around US$500 billion, around the scale of the GDP of a rich [...]
Read moreBlog: Finance, Debt & Society
Over the past decade, conventional thinking on the financial sector has been turned on its head. Prior to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers argued that deregulated financial markets would self-regulate and accurately price risk. But in fact, complex financial products generated [...]
Read moreBlog: Capitalism, Democracy & the State
The 2008 financial crisis rocked global capitalism to its foundations. In its aftermath growth has slowed, living standards have stagnated, inequality has risen and tight fiscal austerity has re-shaped the social and political structure of many advanced countries. Developing economies have not [...]
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