James Petras — Global Economic, Political and Military Configurations

Introduction: Mapping the emerging global economic, political and military configurations requires that we examine regions and countries along several dynamic policy axis:

• Capitalist versus anti-capitalist
• Neoliberal versus anti-neoliberal
• Austerity versus anti-austerity
• War command centers and war zones
• Political change and socio-economic continuity
• New Order and political decay

Though many of these dimensions overlap, they also highlight the complexity and influence of local and national versus global power relations. 

We will first identify and classify the regimes and emerging movements, which fall into each of these categories, and then proceed to generalize about current ‘global’ trends and future perspectives based on approximations of the real correlation of forces.…

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Global Economic, Political and Military Configurations
James Petras | Professor (Emeritus) of Sociology at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York and adjunct professor at Saint Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Merijn Knibbe — Bundesbank calls for higher wages across Eurozone

…this is a game changer (via left foot forward): the Bundesbank finally understands. Economic policies aimed at financial deregulation, low wages and asset price increases instead of low unemployment, high employment and high income have failed.

"Finally understands," or getting cold feet at the carnage and prospect of dire potential social and political outcomes.

Maybe it will come to be called "the Piketty Effect."

Real-World Economics Review Blog
Bundesbank calls for higher wages across Eurozone
Merijn Knibbe

But see Bill Mitchell, No fundamental shift of policy at the Bundesbank