On world money and war.
Costas Lapavitsas, professor of economics at SOAS, London, talks to George and Alex about financialisation, arrested development, and the Strait of Hormuz.
What is the state-led stabilisation of finance capital?
How does today's imperialism differ from prior versions – even if they also inhibited development outside the core?
What is the "liquidity tribute" that developing countries must pay?
How is the war on Iran a perfect case of dollar imperialism: "the dollar and the F35"?
Why is the talk of "colonialism" today a distraction?
London event: History's Back, Baby!
Links:
A Topography of the New Dollar Imperialism, Costas Lapavitsas, NLR
Trump’s Chaotic Imperialism: Economic Warfare, Geopolitical Truculence and Domestic Authoritarianism, Costas Lapavitsas, Socialist Register
For forthcoming Monthly Review article, see here