Transferring Wealth

2008-05-29 New York Times: In Stock Plan Employees See Stacked Deck
2007-12-15 New York Times: Rich Are Getting Richer Much Faster
2005-11-09 New York Times: The End of Pensions
2005-10-04 New York Times: Home Builders Bailing Out of Stock Market
2005-10-05 New York Times: At The Very Top A Surge In Income

Global Political Economy

Simon Johnson: The Quiet Coup May 2009

Walden Bello

• Bello: The End of a Miracle: Speculation and Foreign Capital Dependence and the Collapse of the Southeast Asian Economies
• Bello: Unfinished Business: The Bretton Woods Twins and Southeast Asia

Robert Brenner: The Economics of Global Turbulence summary

Michel Chossudovsky

• Chossudovsky: Financial Warfare
• Chossudovsky: IMF and Rwanda

Doug Henwood: The Global Economic Crisis update

Nicholas Kristof-Sheryl WuDunn-Edward Wyatt: Global Contagion: Networked Economies and Stunted Lives

Paul Krugman: The Return of Demand-Side Economics

Nitzan and Bichler: New Imperialism or New Capitalism

Steve Niva: Comprehending Economic Globalization: A Critical Guide

Maurice Obstfeld: The Global Capital Market: Benefactor or Menace

Antonio Ocampo and Lance Taylor, "Trade Liberalization in Developing Economies: Modest Benefits, But Problems with Productivity Growth, Macro Prices, and Income Distribution"


Ajit Singh, "Pension Reform, the Stock Market, Capital Formation and Economic Growth: A Critical Commentary on the World Bank's Proposals"


Kenneth Surin: Reanimation of Dependency Theory in the Era of Financial Capital

Financial Globalization

2008-11-23 New York Times: The Reckoning-Citigroup Saw No Red Flags
2008-10-15 Washington Post: The Derivatives Meltdown-What Went Wrong

Dean Baker and Karl Walentin: The Increasing Cost of Foreign Reserve Holdings to Developing Nations
Robert Blecker: Taming Global Finance-summary

John Eatwell

• "International Capital Liberalization: The Impact on World Development"
  
• "International Capital Markets and the Future of Economic Policy"
  
• "The Performance of Liberalized Capital Markets"
  

Ute Pieper and Lance Taylor, "The Revival of the Liberal Creed: The IMF, the World Bank, and Inequality in a Globalized Economy"


Ajit Singh, "'Asian Capitalism' and the Financial Crisis"

Ajit Singh and Javed Hamud, "Corporate Financial Structures in Developing Countries" (conclusions)

Introduction to the International Monetary Fund workings and functions