Chapter in Wolfram Elsner and Svenja Flechtner’s volume on approaches to teaching economics. Cite as: ‘The Second Opinion: an ethical approach to learning and teaching’. In Decker, Samuel, Wolfram Elsner,…
Michel Husson originally published this landmark article in French as Manuel Perez (1980), which prefigured almost all the criticisms that TSSI scholars later made. I translated it into English to…
Interview with CBC. Two audio files. This arose because the Manitoba government, which fell to the Progressive Conservative Party in the 2016 elections, accepted some of the general case for…
Colin Gillespie asked me to write a think piece on the process of revolutionary ‘Kuhnian’ changes in scientific thinking, such as the Quantum Physics, which have a long-term impact on…
This special issue of International Critical Thought, edited by Radhika Desai, myself and Boris Kagarlitsky, was devoted to the conflict in Ukraine, its origins, and its geopolitical implications. It was…
This article was a response to a charge, by Changkeun Kim (2016) that there is circular reasoning in Freeman and Kliman’s definition of the Monetary Expression of Labour Time (MELT).…
Presentation to International Symposium on ‘China Path toward Poverty Eradication and Comprehensive Well-off Society’, Peking University, October 22-23, 2016. This particular slideshow, which I used on a number of other…
This paper by Radhika Desai and myself was published by the Val Dai club as https://valdaiclub.com/a/reports/report-brexit-the-city-and-the-crisis/. This post also contains a shorter article in the Winnipeg Free Press. Loading… Taking…
‘The Uncomfortable Question of Class’. Presented to the conference of the Political Science Association Marxism Specialist Group, Manchester, September 2016. This presaged my later critique of the standard Marxist approach…
This definitive article investigates the mechanisms and causes of recessions and depressions, and their relation to the more spectacular financial crises which announce them. It demonstrates how the concept of…
This paper, originating in the [Harcourt conference], finally materialised in the Dow-Jespersen-Tily volume on ‘Money, Method and Post-Keynesian Economics for the 21st Century’ Cite as: Chick, V. and A. Freeman.…
GERG’s panel on the state of economics took place against the background of a doubling-down in neoclassical economics and the further suppression of heterodox economics. In Notre Dame this led…
This post contains the slides of my talk in the New Cold War (NCW) panel, for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS) stream at the 2016 Conference of the Humanities,…
The Geopolitical Economy Research Group (GERG), together with the editors of New Cold War (NCW), organised three panels for the Society for Socialist Studies (SSS). The first was on ‘Russia,…
A large conference was held on ‘Russia in the Global Economy: Challenges and development institutions’ at the South Federal University Higher School of Business, Rostov-on-Don, 26-28th May 2016. I presented…
‘On the Rehabilitation of Communism’. Text submitted to the Joint conference on Neotraditionalism and Archaisation of Political Space in the Center and Periphery of the World-System: Causes and Consequences, Moscow…
Presented at a conference on ‘The Case for Economic Security’, Anti-crisis Expert Forum on ‘State, Business and Regions’, St Petersburg, 18-20 May 2016. Slides and a text Loading… Taking too…
This short text is the abstract of a proposed paper at the Glasgow 2016 conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics. The paper did not materialize because I could not…
Article by Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman for the Chamber of Commerce journal Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [167.26 KB]
Brief notes for a conference of Western Business Outlook Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [130.77 KB] Download [912.35 KB]
This is the prepublication contribution to a symposium on George DeMartino’s ‘I solemnly swear’, organised by the journal Rethinking Marxism. I first came across DeMartino’s work through the early version…
Slides for a session on economic ethics at the Southern Economic Association Annual Conference, organised by the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions (AIRLEAP) group.…
Keynote presentation to the Association of Manitoba Museums, November 2015. The post includes the text and slides Cite as: Freeman, Alan (2015). ‘Remembering the Future: Place and narrative in the…
Slides and text of a keynote speech at a conference organised by the Simon Kuznets Society for International Development, Moscow, October 2015. Includes Russian translation of the text, but not…
A comprehensive set of slides explaining the ethical and scientific basis for assertive pluralism, and why the simple but common counterposition of heterodox economics to orthodox economics doesn’t work. Changchung…
A paper on the illusion of self-restoration and the need for an industrial policy for Russia. This post contains the paper, and two preparatory pieces of interest Loading… Taking too…
Slides for a meeting on ‘The role of the state in the economy: the fundamental question; organised by Lord Skidelsky. The meeting agenda, which is interesting, is included in the…
Presented at the second ‘World Keynes Conference’, Denizli, 2015. A precursor of a very similar piece of the same title later published on Academia. Includes slides for the presentation Loading……
I was asked by a consultant working with Moscow City for notes on the evolution of London’s Transport system. These are they. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open…
Educational notes prepared for a summer camp organised by Ideas Left Out at Elbow Lake, Ontario in the summer of 2015. I suggested to the organisers that I could produce…
Slides and notes for a discussion on arts and culture with Thom Sparling and Lyn Skromeda. Became an op-ed in the Winnipeg Free Press. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document…
An educational piece pitched at non-specialists. Cite as: Freeman, A. 2015. ‘Profit, Profit Margin and Profit Rate’ in Bina, C. and Davis (eds) Global Economics: An Encyclopedia of Crisis and…
This paper was presented in the session on ‘Long Waves in Political Economy’ organised by Ingo Schmidt at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Ottawa, June 1-4 2015.…
Interview with the Mexican magazine ‘El Economista’ on the creative industries and their significance for economic growth. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [433.12…
Two articles by Radhika and myself on Cameron’s failed gamble, and the surge in the support for the Scottish National Party Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in…
The United Jewish Federation (UJF), concerned at the rise of antisemitism, organised a joint meeting with the Association of United Ukrainian Canadians (AUUC), in Winnipeg’s Ukrainian Labour Temple, on the…
In 2015 I made a presentation to the 2015 Moscow Economic Forum, which I wrote up for the Valdai Club. This post contains the slides, in English and Russian, and…
A friend from Germany asked me why Germany was able to sell bonds with a negative yield, and whether this indicated a new stage of some kind of value destruction.…
In an unpublished manuscript of February 2015 I set out an account of the factors impacting the course of the profit rate, in a continuous time framework. I had intended…
This paper was the fruit of a further collaboration between Hasan Bakhshi, Peter Higgs and myself in an attempt to examine the intersection between the creative industries and the ‘STEM’…
Radhika was invited to address the 2015 ‘International Rosa Luxemburg Conference’ in Berlin, organised by the youth newspaper Junge Welt. Her prescient speech is a sharp but sad reminder of…
Fred Lee, founder of the Association for Heterodox Economics and leading spirit of the heterodox economics movement, passed away of cancer in 2014. It was a great loss. A memorial…
I was invited by Professor Meng Jie to deliver a talk to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, in the course of a longer visit in which I presented a…
My chapter for the book Turan Subasat and John Weeks’ book on the global meltdown of 2008. Cite as: Freeman, A. 2016 ‘Booms, depressions, and the rate of profit: a…
The organizers of the ‘Jornadas de Politica’ conference invited me to deliver one of three keynote speeches on the theme ‘La Economía Crítica y El Laberinto de la Crisis’. This…
The overthrow of Viktor Yanukovych in the Maidan Square events of February 2014 unleashed a period of civil conflict which pitched Ukraine nationalists against the large Russian-speaking population of the…
This paper was the fruit of the [discussion organised by DAC] (Digital and Copyright Association) that took place in 2012. DACS published a book containing contributions from artists, economists and…
The background to this joint UK-US symposium was the interest, in both countries, in establishing some kind of framework for measuring ‘cultural’ activities, production and consumption. In the US the…
Presentation to the New York Left Forum – provides an overview of the debate between TSSI and the ‘standard Marxism’ of the West. With several useful links Download [328.49 KB]
Radhika Desai and I became involved with the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE) in 2008 at their Paris conference. WAPE was an initiative of Professor Cheng Enfu of the…
This contains the prepublication text of a major work by Professor Chen Enfu and his colleagues, which I was asked to edit for publication by Canut Press. The work was…
I was invited to address the American Association of Arts Educators’ conference on May 29th 2014, which was held in Montreal. I chose to focus on the achievements of the…
This article in the [special edition of Cambridge Journal of Economics] argues that Samuelson’s influential 1987 call for a ‘Whig History of Economic Science’ rests on a Whig Historiography of…
In March 2014, the economics department of Lomonosov State University hosted a forum on the theme ‘Russia’s Oil-free Future’ (НЕСЫРЬЕВОЕ БУДУЩЕЕ РОССИИ) which was in fact a comprehensive attempt to…
My chapter in Kees van der Pijl’s edited handbook on ‘The International Political Economy of Production’, which includes a new, though short, preface. It does not reproduce the enormous consolidated…
This post contains Desai’s paper and my slideshow. These are entitled, respectively ‘Improving States in a Geopolitical Economy History of the World Order’ and ‘Creativity and High-End Labour’ Loading… Taking…
My chapter in the edited volume Creative Work beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment, and Education, edited by Gregory Hearn, Ruth Bridgstock, Ben Goldsmith, Jessica Rodgers. This is the prepublication…
On 13th January 2014, after a long consultation process, the UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) released its new employment and output figures for the UK’s Creative Industries,…
This is a pre-publication version of an article published by the journal ‘America Latina XXI’ in May 2013. It was originally produced as a tribute to Hugo Chavez and a…
This report, prepared for the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA), was the fruit of a long collaboration between Hasan Bakhshi of NESTA, myself and Peter Higgs…
Peter Higgs and I wrote up this brief explanation of ‘creative intensity’, the core concept of researches that we had actually conducted separately, in separate continents, to find we had…
Slideshow presented at a seminar held in the House of Commons by Economists Against Austerity Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [416.69 KB]
Arising from the [Cultural Audit of London], at my suggestion, the Burns-Owens Partnership (who produced the report) established a ‘club’ of World Cities to exchange benchmarked information and evidence about…
Material from the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Ernest Mandel’s Late Capitalism. This post contains my paper and was its first public presentation, the original, written for Ernest’s memorial,…
Starting in 2012, a quiet revolution began in the cities of New Zealand: the adoption of Living Wage policies. The movement presaged and prepared the ground for Jacinda Ahern’s impressive…
By Andrew Kliman, Alan Freeman, Nick Potts, Alexey Gusev, and Brendan Cooney This article, our first response to Heinrich’s, ‘Crisis Theory, the Law of the Tendency of the Profit Rate…
This paper was presented to the IIPPE conference of July 2013, which was hosted at the Fourth Annual Conference in Political Economy, Institute for Social Studies, Erasmus University, the Hague,…
Slideshow of presentation to the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [570.27 KB]
The self-styled 4th International Vanguard Science Congress was organised jointly by Heinz Dieterich’s Center for Transition Sciences at the Autonomous University of Mexico (UAM) and a number of other organisations…
Presentations at the forum organised by the ‘Post-globalization of Initiative’ (IGPO) in May 2013. This post contains two slideshows, two written-up papers, the talks themselves, and this video. Loading… Taking…
In 2013, the UK Department of Media, Culture and Sport (DCMS) launched a consultation to determine how to define and measure the creative industries. Hasan Bakhshi of the National Endowment…
These are our two presentations to the US Left Forum in 2013. Radhika Desai’s is entitled ‘International Monetary Reform in the 21st Century’. Mine is on the effects of Financial…
This paper summarises the main conclusions of ten years of research into the Creative Industries in London and the UK, culminating in a report for the English-based research foundation NESTA.…
Winnipeg City Council held a public hearing on the alignment of the planned Rapid Transit. The proposed route (now implemented) destroyed many acres of urban wetland termed the ‘Parker Lands’,…
Presentation to a seminar organised by the Design department of the Autonomous National University of Mexico (UNAM) on 3 December 2012, and also the presentation of the organisers on the…
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The paper re-examines the definition of the rate of profit found in Marx’s writings on the subject and argues that this confirms the inclusion of financial instruments in both the…
Victoria Chick and I contributed a joint paper to the Geoff Harcourt memorial conference in February 2012. It explored Keynes’s conception of a ‘stationary state’ of capitalism and its consequences…
On December 8, 2011 the University of Manitoba’s Business School held a symposium on the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ movement. This post contains the slides that explain the event, and my…
This is an exchange with Nathan Coombs around his interesting submission on the ‘Stalled Project of Marxian Economics’. As far as I know it is unpublished, but I seem to…
Programme and my presentation from the British Arts Festivals Association, 7-9 November, Barbican, London Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [1.80 MB]
My review of Nitzan and Bichler’s book. Cite as: Freeman, A. 2011. review of Capital as Power: a Study of Order and Creorder by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. Eastern…
Slideshow presented to students from the ‘Action Canada’ initiative. Includes a report from the team which they produced after taking input on Canada’s creative industries from a range of sources
These slides were presented to a symposium in Berlin organised by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation on 15 October 2011. They are substantively similar to the Yaroslavl presentation which was not…
On 8 September 2011, the Northern city of Yaroslavl hosted its ‘Global Policy Forum’, a showcase project of Medvedev, in the hope of putting Russia on the world map on…
Public expenditure and the arts: measuring intrinsic value. Kent University Creative Regions Summer school, Canterbury. Subsequently presented to the Kent University Summer school, Brussels
This is a prepublication version of ‘Money, Labor, and Logic: A critical comparison’, published in Critique of Political Economy. It sought to promote a scholarly debate between the temporal single-system…
By Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman, this article throws light on the disarray among Marxist analyses of the 2008 crisis. Focusing on discussions of “financialisation”, it traces the difficulties in…
The University of Chicago hosted a symposium on the Future of the Arts on June 20, 2011. I took part in the initial session on the valuation of culture, initiating…
Winnipeg Art Council commissioned a Culture Plan in 2010, and invited me to speak at the annual Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts in 2011. I’d been in Winnipeg for little…
Submission to a regional school on the value of culture organised by the University of Kent in June 2011. This work fed into a comprehensive report prepared by Dave O’Brien…
This third of [three provocations] originally published on the Mission Money Models website, this paper by Hasan Bakhshi, Alan Freeman and Jason Potts proposes a fundamental shift in the role…
I’ve posted this important study, which came from work at the London Development Agency, because of the importance of the methodology, and because of the significance of a collaboration briefly…
On 27 January 2011 the UK’s Science and Technology Committee Launched a parliamentary enquiry into peer review. This post includes the invitation, and our response. Loading… Taking too long? Reload…
In 2010 Marxism 21 published a critical evaluation of TSSI scholarship by Korean scholar Changkeun Kim, including a critique of our objections to the ‘Fundamental Marxist Theorem’ (FMT). There was…
In 2011 Mick Burke, myself, and Michael Roberts were asked to prepare a Trade Union Plan for the Crisis by the UK Fire Brigades Union (FBU). This is it. Powered…
Trends in Value Theory since 1881, World Review of Political Economy, Vol.1, Number 4, Pluto Press. This, a more extended version of the [draft] presented to the AHE, is the…
This paper restores the concepts of freedom, consciousness, and choice to our understanding of ‘economic laws’, so we may discuss how to respond to economic crisis. These are absent from…
This modest piece deals with a vital question: how can arts practitioners contribute to school education? And what educational value to they add? I worked with David Ewens and Stephen…
Just before moving to Winnipeg in April 2011, I was invited to take part in the conference entitled ‘My City’s Still Breathing’ on the role of Culture in the economic…
This version of the paper first published in the [International Review of Economics Education] expands the argument found there. The two papers taken together are a summary presentation of the…
Presentation to the Communist University 30 July 2010. Supported the ‘Million Climate Change Jobs’ initiative, a collaborative venture in the UK which set out an early programme for Green Transformation
A slideshow presented to a summer school organised by the University of Canterbury in Kent, which brought together interested specialists from across Europe in this, the first of a series…
Translation into Portuguese of ‘Economists of Tomorrow’. Many, many thanks to Vladimir Micheletti for the translation Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [555.09 KB]
Slideshow presented to a seminar at the University of Kingston, England, 15 June 2010 Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [665.53 KB]
Slideshow and paper for the 2010 conference of the World Association of Political Economy (WAPE). The paper extends the notion, developed in a similiarly-named [RiPE paper], that contingency and free…
In 2010 we took part in a series of meetings in South Africa. We were first invited by the Cape Town-based ILRIG (International Labour Research and Information Group) to a…
In November 2009, DACS (Digital and Copyright Agency), a not-for-profit visual artists’ rights management organisation, hosted a series of high-profile debates on visual artists in the 21st century. Chaired by…
Hasan Bakhshi and I contributed this short piece to a discussion organised by ‘Museums, Libraries and Archives London’ (MLAL) about the role of these institutions in knowledge transfer. Includes the…
This landmark article, in Capital and Class 34 vol 1, pp84-97, summarizes the case for the Temporal Single System Interpretation (TSSI) of Marx’s theory of value, and states the case…
This last complete update of the GLA’s creative industry reports contains the most comprehensive treatment of clustering, localization and dispersal. Includes use of some more sophisticated tools for geospatial analysis.…
This article, published in Third World Quarterly, challenged frontally the statistical manipulation of inequality data by the IMF and World Bank to support flawed claims that neoliberal policies are responsible…
This, our second provocation, was written by Hasan Bakhshi, Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman. It proposed that publicly funded arts and cultural organisations should aspire to, and be funded to,…
This landmark paper studies, empirically, the two causes for variations in the postwar US profit rate, including the long fall that started in the 1950s. It show shows that changes…
In April 2009 Canadian Dimension published a special issue on the recession, initiating a debate about Keynes that continued in subsequent issues and included contributions by Cy Gonick and Rick…
This slideshow was presented to the 2009 AHE conference and to the 2009 conference of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE). It has a couple of interesting features: it…
This paper forms part of an [extended debate] which Andrew Kliman and I conducted with Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani. See also our 2006 [Reply to Mohun] and 2008 [summing…
Chapter 5 of Anthony, W. and Guard, J. (eds) (2009) Bailouts and Bankruptcies. Winnipeg: Fernwood Press. It asked how the state might solve the current crisis, by asking how it…
The case for pluralism as a new foundation for economics. This definitive article brings together the arguments advanced in AHE (Association for Heterodox Economics) responses to the stifling and monotheoretic…
The 2009 conference of the World Association for Political Economy (WAPE), in Paris, was our first involvement in WAPE. The slideshow is quite similar to the [AHE slideshow] presented in…
By Alan Freeman and Radhika Desai, published on the GFC Economics site, May 12th 2009 Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [45.22 KB]
Three presentations by Radhika Desai, by Alan Freeman and by Andrew Kliman to a panel at the 2009 Left Forum in Pace University, New York. I included all the presentations…
By Radhika Desai and Alan Freeman. Published on the Debtonation website on 24 February 2009. Includes an unpublished short manuscript prepared for Debtonation but not submitted. This additional manuscript contains…
Published on Anne Pettifor’s Debtonation website, this short piece argued that the US and other governments had vastly underestimated the size of the ‘stimulus’ needed to get their countries out…
International Interest in the GLA’s work on both the Creative Industries and Metropolitan Regions began to grow from the middle of the first decade of 2000. In particular, a research…
This presentation argues for a visionary approach to anti-recession public spending. It sets out the case for 'civilisational change', equipping entire populations with enhanced mental and cultural capacities to bring…
Presentation by Andy Denis and Alan Freeman to the Committee of Heads of University Departments of Economics (CHUDE) on peer review and the benchmarking process in economics.
Presented to a seminar organised by International Socialist Journal (ISJ) after the 2008 financial crash, this slideshow was my first public response. It brings together an analysis of the causes…
In the wake of every financial crash, a wave of self-doubt bombards the intellectual redoubts of the orthodox. Following the 2008 crash, this wave reached august UK Times, which conducted…
After the 2008 crash I was interviewed by Alejandro Bercovitch of the newspaper ‘Critica de La Argentina’. At the time, my statement that ‘The crisis in the United States will…
This paper, and the accompanying slideshow, was presented to the Freeman Centre, Sussex University, October 2008 at a seminar organised by the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU). Chris Freeman was…
This paper sums up an extended debate which Andrew Kliman and I conducted with Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani. It should be cited as ‘Simultaneous Valuation vs. the Exploitation Theory…
This postrecords some of the technical discussions between the GLA and the Office for National Statistics (ONS) arising from ONS work on [Regional Creative Industry] statistics. They are of historical…
This paper is a definitive theoretical statement of the relation – and the difference - between creativity and culture. Going beyond this hotly disputed question, which arose early in my…
Undergraduate Lecture at the University of Manitoba Politics Department, 8 April 2008. Presents the critique of Purchasing Power Parities, the account of North-South divergence, and the rise of China published…
Undergraduate lecture to the economics department of the University of Manitoba, April 2008. A detailed critique of the shortcomings of ‘Purchasing Power Parity’ as a measure of inequality and poverty.
A review of R. KUHN, Henryk Grossman and the Recovery of Marxism, Urbana and Chicago: U of Illinois P, 2007, pp. xii + 331, ISBN 978-0-252-03107-6 (hbk); 978-0-252-07352-6 (pbk) Published…
In 2008 the GLA decided to commission an independent evaluation of the benefits of the Living Wage. This was to include benefits to the employers such as efficiency gains and…
On March 17-18 2008 the Conference Board of Canada held an International Forum on the Creative Economy in Ottawa-Gatineaux. It was the start of my collaboration with Peter Higgs of…
This paper, emanating from my earlier work such as my chapter in the Freeman-Kagarlitsky Volume, documents a further stage in the evolution of my thinking, rather than any especially definitive…
This report, published by the Greater London Authority and the London Development Agency in March 2008, benchmarks London’s cultural offer against four other world cities: Paris, New York, Tokyo and…
Record of the AHE submission to the UK’s ‘Quality Assurance Authority’ (QAA) in response to a request for views on the ‘Research Assessment Exercise’ (RAE), the framework for awarding grants…
One of four updates to the original Greater London Authority Creative Industry Data Series. Contains additional information on precarity, gender and ethnic distribution of jobs in the creative industries. Includes…
Jude Woodward was the Mayor’s Cultural Advisor and responsible for the Greater London Authority’s Cultural and Creative Policies. She pioneered much of London’s early work in establishing relations with China…
in 2007 the UK's Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) conducted an enquiry whose aim was to establish a 'standard' economics curriculum. The Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) conducted a systematic survey…
This presentation of the 2004 Creative Industries Update was used in a number of places and modified several times. I am posting the version that was discussed with a delegation…
This paper was presented to the ‘Marxism and Political Economy’ conferenceof the International Socialist Journal on Saturday 29th September 2007. A revised version was presented to the Historical Materialism conference…
This slideshow accompanies two papers on the topic, which I variously entitled ‘explaining international inequality’ and ‘the modernity of backwardness’ (the first of these titles emphasised the importance of value…
During 2005-2006 a series of workshops were held in the LSE to discuss the concept of equilibrium in economics, with participation from natural scientists, statisticians, and economists. This is a…
This is the first of several papers on the theme of the relation between culture, creativity and the emerging economy, the version I normally present as definitive being the [Birkbeck…
This paper was submitted collectively by the Association for Heterodox Economics, as a result of a consultation request issued by the QAA (Quality Assurance Authority) for responses to the ‘benchmark’…
My first paper to the ICAPE conference, originally entitled ‘the modernity of backwardness’ assessed three classic debates: the Brenner- Wallerstein debate on the transition to feudalism of 1974, the debate…
The 2007 conference of the International Confederation for Pluralism in Economics, held in Salt Lake City, Utah from June 1-3, was a further watershed in the evolution of pluralist economics,…
In 2007 the GLA received a German Trade Union delegation including in particular representatives of the Ver.di confederation. This is one of the most comprehensive succinct statement of what the…
The author prepared this report for the Greater London Authority based on earlier work, in conjunction with Paul Cheshire and Ian Gordon of the London School of Economics, the OECD…
The GLA’s creative industry update 2007, with additional material on clustering and dispersion. Slideshow presented to the University of Greenwich prior to the release of the report
The SCORUS group, with a general remit to study cities and influences on them, met in Darmstadt in 2007. Here are the presentations from Paul Cheshire and myself.
This report by Alan Freeman and Leticia Verute-McKay should be cited as Freeman, A. and Veruete-McKay, L. 2007. A Fairer Wage: the Living Wage in London (2007). London: Greater London…
This paper was presented at the Historical Materialism conference on 7-9 December 2006 and started an engagement between the TSSI (Temporal Single System Interpretation) of Marx, and the value-form school.…
This paper was presented at the Historical Materialism conference on 7-9 December 2006 and assessed the current state of the world economy. Defining ‘globalisation’ as the period of intensive financial…
Current Issues Note 11 . See also the London WorkForce Employment Series. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab Download [193.13 KB]
Under the indispensable guidance of Paul Cheshire and Ian Gordon, LSE's stalwart geographers, the GLA tried its best to develop sound practices for the measurement and definition of cities. I…
This presentation, on London as a Functional Urban Region, builds on the programme of work we launched with Paul Cheshire and other geographers at the London School of Economics, and…
By 2006, the UK creative industry bandwagon was rolling out, and many climbed on it. This was of course welcome, but led to that peculiar euphoria which emerges when a…
I moved from the GLA to the LDA in 2006. I did not realise it at the time, but it was already dead. The problem, which ultimately played a significant…
Presentation to a 3 November 2006 meeting of the FOCI group, dealing with the study of the creative industries. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document | Open in new tab…
Presented to the 8th annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics, London, July 2006. Available also on RepEc. This piece ias one of several in a developing critique of…
Guglielmo Carchedi: For Another Europe: a Class Analysis of European Economic Integration. London: Verso. Reviewed by Alan Freeman and published in Historical Materialism volume 14:1 (pp283–297). Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV…
This is the second annual report from a programme of research by the Living Wage Unit into issues related with the living wage and poverty in London. It presents an…
This paper forms part of an extended debate which Andrew Kliman and I conducted with Simon Mohun and Roberto Veneziani, in the pages of Capital and Class. The paper should…
Slideshow, presented to City University in February 2006 on London’s creative industries and their significance. Contains some useful infographics on location and clustering
Presented at ‘Towards a Cosmopolitan Marxism’, Historical Materialism Annual Conference (in association with Socialist Register and the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial. I had become concerned at the proliferation of…
This paper was presented to a session of the 7th annual conference of the Association for Heterodox Economics (AHE) at City University, London, July 15-17th, 2005, and it was edited…
By the mid-2000s, the heterodox economics movement was gathering steam. It received a major boost from the so-called 'post-autistic economics' movement in France (see also this archive), a student revolt…
Working paper 13 from the Economic Intelligence Unit of the Greater London Authority (GLA) assesses to what extent it is possible to construct standardised geographical definitions of cities that will…
In 2005 the Mayor of London established a Living Wage unit. Its first report, by Alan Freeman and Leticia Veruete-McKay, describes the calculation of London’s first Living Wage, which was…
I was invited to contribute to Andrew Kliman’s SPACE blog as part of an ongoing debate on pluralism. This was the result, which I hope helped advance the discussion and…
Fact-based analysis of the economics of pensions, in response to the government’s ill-informed pension reform frenzy. Published in Socialist Campaign Group News on 14 February 2005
By Paul Cheshire and Alan Freeman: comprehensive slide show on the geoeconomic comparison of European and US cities. Fancifully entited ‘London: Europe’s New York’. Presented as the 7th Annual GaWC…
In 2003 a campaign for the relief of Argentina's dishonourable debt was founded in the UK, following the disastrous effects of the collapse of the Peso. This article, in the…
In 1997 Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy (hence GD-DL) kindly produced a response to my 1996 general formulation of the Temporal Single-System (TSS) interpretation of Marx’s value theory. Dumenil and…
In October 2004 the Greater London Authority hosted the World Social Forum, attended by over 20,000 people. This article was written for the Guardian comment section
This article, written for a special issue of the Journal of Management Philosophy, appears to be no longer available. It attempts to extend the analysis in previous articles by enquiring…
This constitutes my chapter in The New Value Controversy. It focuses on a reply to Laibman’s article in the same book, and disputes the notion of ‘linear’ forward progress in…
I returned to Argentina for a third visit in 2004, and in the course of the visit, spent some time in Uruguay where the Frente Amplio was about to score…
This is the introduction to the Pluto Book ‘Politics of Empire’ and was written jointly by Alan Freeman and Boris Kagarlitsky, the book editors. Loading… Taking too long? Reload document…
Working paper 9 from the Economics Intelligence Unit of the Greater London Authority. Arising from our work on London's Workforce, it became clear that London needed to make meaningful comparisons…
Following the publication of Creativity: London's Core Business, we began producing regular updates. As time went on, these began to explore a range of issues relating to creative sector policy,…
These slides accompany a presentation to a seminar at the LSE in January 2004. The seminar arose from the work I was doing with Paul Cheshire and others at the…
This theoretical intervention, at this time only a slide show but later feeding into a set of papers, reflects on the findings of Creativity: London's Core Business. It was presented…
Paper presented to a conference in Middlesex in 2003. Summary of the divergence data to that date, and introduces the distorting effects of the statistical information provided by World agencies,…
An article for Rodnaya Gazeta delivered whilst I was in Moscow for the ISPRAN conference in 2003. Raises frontally the onset of 'deflation' in the world economy and the onset…
In 2000 I began working with the Greater London Authority (GLA) under the radical Mayor Ken Livingstone. We established an Economic Intelligence Unit and I held the brief first for…
From Westra; R and Alan Zuege (Eds) (2003) Value and the World Economy Today: Production; Finance and Globalization; This paper constructs a theoretical framework for understanding what happens when markets…
This is a small post which repeats the data from the CESTES 2003 conference and other sources. I reproduce the charts however, as part of the historical record about the…
The third Rome conference organised by CESTES provided the chance to bring together four previously separated lines of enquiry: the study of the new shape of the world economy, the…
This is a prepublication version of an analysis of stagnation and divergence in the world economy which appeared in Pettifor, A (2003) Real World Economic Outlook, pp152-159. Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan,…
This is a fuller but earlier prepublication version of an analysis of stagnation and divergence in the world economy which appeared in Anne Pettifor's Real World Economic Outlook in 2003.…
METU held a second conference from September 11th to September 2002. This paper follows the 9/11 paper presented in 2001. It attempted to analyse the fundamental features of the world…
In 2000 I began working with the Greater London Authority (GLA) under the radical Mayor Ken Livingstone. We established an Economic Intelligence Unit and I held the brief first for…
In April 2002 I visited Argentina again and found myself in the middle of a revolution. The devaluation of the peso provoked revolts which by December had deposed De La…
I post here the contribution of Ramos to the May 21, 2002 conference. It is in Spanish. Ramos was the originator of the concept of the Monetary Expression of Labour…
I post here the contribution of Cavallaro to the May 21, 2002 conference. I have posted only the Italian version. I do have an English version but it is so…
When our friends in Italy proposed to organise their May 21, 2002 conference, I was still in Argentina. I immediately emailed Mino Carchedi and Andrew Kliman. I think the letter…
When our friends in Italy proposed to organise their May 21, 2002 conference, I was still in Argentina. I immediately emailed Mino Carchedi and Andrew Kliman. I think the letter…
On May 21st, The 'Laboratory for Social Critique' at La Sapienza University in Rome organised a conference on value theory around the book edited by Luciano Vasopollo to which many…
This paper was presented at 15:00 hours local time in Ankara, Turkey on 11th September 2001, which was also my father Chris's 80th birthday and the 28th anniversary of the…
This post contains the English and German language versions of the entry on ‘Money’ (‘Geld’) in the ‘Historisch Kritisch Wörterbuch des Marxismus’, a comprehensive dictionary of Marxist terminology being produced…
On the cusp of the millenium, Paul Zarembka's Research in Political Economy published, in the course of two issues in 1999 and 2000, a four-way exchange about approaches to Marx's…
On the cusp of the millenium, Paul Zarembka's Research in Political Economy published, in the course of two issues in 1999 and 2000, a four-way exchange about approaches to Marx's…
This is my chapter for the New Value Controversy, It addresses David Laibman's (2001) contribution to the same volume, in which he characterises TSSI scholars as ‘New Orthodox Marxists’ erecting…
This post continues the exchange between myself and Gary Mongiovi in the pages of Research in Political Economy, which started with my article entitled [‘Crisis and “law of motion” in…
This comment on Carchedi's paper was part of the important 2001 conference organised by the Laboratorio per la Critica Sociale del Centro Studi Trasformazioni Economico-Sociali (CESTES-PROTEO), Rome University La Sapienza,…
On May 21st, The 'Laboratory for Social Critique' at La Sapienza University in Rome organised a conference on value theory around the book edited by Luciano Vasopollo to which many…
This paper was submitted to the 2001 conference of the IWGVT It was a short response to the idea, common amongst Simultaneous Marxist Economists, that equilibrium or simultaneous prices of…
The paper argues that a formal, and fruitful, historical analogy can be drawn between economics and a religious hierarchy, most notably the mediaeval Catholic church. This idea was fully developed…
I provided the data work for this paper which should be cited as Sudarsanam, Puliyur Sudi and Mahate, Ashraf A. and Freeman, Alan, Glamour Acquirers, Method of Payment and Post-Acquisition…
This introductory paper examine the discussion among Marxists about the rate of profit. The paper is non-mathematical but contains many numerical examples and a detailed textual exegesis. It is a…
While teaching at Greenwich University from 1992 to 2000, I worked with George Hallam and Malcolm Ryan on how Computers could help Learning Economics. We also took part in forums…
In November 1999 I was invited to address a conference of the Institute of Politology 'ISPRAN' at Moscow State University. I presented the same report as to the Porto Alegre…
In 1997 Gérard Duménil and Dominique Lévy (hence GD-DL) kindly produced a response to my 1996 general formulation of the Temporal Single-System (TSS) interpretation of Marx’s value theory. Dumenil and…
In 1999, SOAS organised a symposium around the work of Robert Brenner. At its centre lay the question, as always, of the rate of profit. Brenner, a historian, had assembled…
In 1999, SOAS organised a symposium around the work of Robert Brenner. At its centre lay the question, as always, of the rate of profit. Brenner, a historian, had assembled…
In October 1999 I was invited to address the de facto founding conference, in Porto Alegre, of the World Social Forum. There are two items here. The first is a…
In September 1999 I made my first visit to Argentina at the invitation of IADE, the Institute for Economic Development. I arrived with debt crisis gathering force and plunged into…
On the cusp of the millenium, Paul Zarembka's Research in Political Economy published a four-way exchange about approaches to Marx's theory of value and the rate of profit between David…
The article shows how to transform the national accounts of the UK from their present form to one in which only labour is considered productive of value.
Written jointly with Andrew Kliman, this is a prepublication version of the entry on the falling rate of profit in O’Hara, Phillip A (1999) The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, pp318-320.…
Written jointly with Andrew Kliman, this was submitted to O’Hara, Phillip A (1999) The Encyclopaedia of Political Economy, pp318-320. London and New York: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-15426-X, but was not accepted.…
The paper examines the profession of economics in the light of its disarray in the face of the financial crash of 1998. It was presented in a variety of forms…
At the 1999 Madrid conference, I presented a number of papers and at Diego Guerrero's invitation gave an undergraduate seminar. In the shadow of the 1998 crash, the central question…
At the 1999 Madrid conference, Paolo Giussani presented two papers, the first on Joint Production and the second on TSS and the rate of profit. This is the paper on…
At the 1999 Madrid conference, Paolo Giussani presented two papers, the first on Joint Production and the second on TSS and the rate of profit. This is the paper on…
Schedule of the 1999 international conference in Madrid organised by Diego Guerrero. One of the few events in which TSSI and other scholars both took part, it was a watershed.…
In 2001 Richard Abritton asked me to write a chapter for Phases of Capitalist Development. The chapter summarises the reasons for employing Marx's value theory to study modern imperialism, highlighting…
This 1999 IWGVT paper drew a line under the debate with 'Marxism without Marx' scholarship, and opened a new discussion on the relation between law and contingency. As the new…
This paper is the first published critique of the indeterminacy of price-value correlations and their inadequacy as empirical evidence for the determination of prices by values. It comments on the…
For reasons of historical interest, this post contains the report which Andrew and I made to the 1999 IWGVT conference. These, crucially, reproduce the 'IWGVT Rules', designed to provide for…
Written jointly with Andrew Kliman, this paper was presented to the Marx International II conference in Paris, 30th September-2nd October 1998. It sets out the principal propositions of the Temporal…
This paper was the first attempt I made to bring about a reassessment of the relation between Marx and Keynes, an endeavour I then pursued relentlessly from this time on,…
This paper, published in Labour Focus on Eastern Europe and reproduced in a number of journals and books, examines the consequences for world trade of the restructuring – commonly termed…
In June 1998 the Brasil Society for Political Economy organised a conference. This took place just before the crash of 1998, and with the devastating effects of the neoliberal decades…
This paper proposes a materialist analysis of the theory and practice of academic economics, the body of thought which Marx dubbed the 'graveyard of economics'. It subjects the claim of…
In 1997 I attended a session organised of the ASSA at which Wayne Marr explained the new electronic publishing venture 'Social Science Research Network', a key progenitor of the unstoppable…
Submission to the mini-conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory, hosted by the Eastern Economic Association, 1997. This paper can be thought of as a detailed study of…
This paper was originally presented to the 1997 conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE). I am publishing it on SSRN in the light of renewed relevance…
I presented two papers to the 1997 conference of the excellent Radical Statistics journal. This, the second paper, was a whimsical critique of mainstream economics, in the form of a…
This article responds to a number of criticisms of the TSSI of Marx’s theory of value, which at the time was described by scholars as the Sequential Non-dualist approach to…
This paper was originally presented to the 1997 conference of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE). I am publishing it on SSRN in the light of renewed relevance…
In 1997, I submitted my paper (published on this site) on an endogenous profit rate cycle to the annual conference of the Royal Economic Society. It was rejected without reasons…
In 1997 I attended a session organised of the ASSA at which Wayne Marr explained the new electronic publishing venture 'Social Science Research Network', a key progenitor of the unstoppable…
Written for Socialist Action, this was the first paper in which I looked in detail at the empirical evidence that inequality between nations was growing, and caused by neoliberalism. It…
This fragmentary note was written to introduce a functioning though incomplete spreadsheet which aims to illustrate capitalist reproduction. Download Spreadsheet Go
Of all the issues which political economy is called on to address, the most insistent, most persistent, and least answered is: why are the poor still with us? This paper…
This article, presented to the 1996 Conference of the History of Economics Society, Vancouver, gives a historical analysis of the origins of the general equilibrium or comparative static approach and…
This paper assesses two linked problems. First: why, despite unceasing technical advance, do growing poverty and misery reign in most of the world? Second, why did the entry of the…
This comprises chapter 1 of Marx and Non-equilibrium Economics. It specifies a non-equilibrium of Marx’s theory of value which demonstrates a fully consistent transformation of values into prices and reproduces…
This text comprises chapter 13 of Marx and non-equilibrium Economics[1]. It provides a general mathematical specification of a non-equilibrium interpretation of Marx’s theory of value. It refutes the Okishio theorem…
This paper presents an abstract model of the business cycle in which the explanatory variables are the interaction between the rate of profit and the rate of investment. It proves…
This private comment,was circulated during the 1994 Bergamo conference organised by Riccardo Bellofiore on the anniversary of Volume III of Capital. This was a watershed encounter between traditional and alternative…
The distinction between moral and material depreciation is critical to Marx’s thinking. In the early history of TSSI, John Ernst's insistence on it was central. I treated this mathematically in…
This article, published in Capital and Class 56, was the first peer-reviewed presentation of what at the time was termed the ‘sequential and non-dualist’ interpretation of Marx’s value theory. This terminology,…
This paper demonstrates that, contrary to the ‘Fundamental Marxian Theorem’ (FMT), a positive net product is not a necessary condition for a positive profit. That is to say, a positive…
This paper was presented to the 1995 conference of the Eastern Economic Association as part of the second mini-conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory (IWGVT), the main…
Slideshow of presentation at SOAS. Early value-theoretic formalization of the role of unequal exchange as the driver of inequality between nations, demonstrating that the positive feedback mechanism that maintains technical…
Submission to the mini-conference of the International Working Group on Value Theory, hosted by the Eastern Economic Association, 1997. This paper can be thought of as a detailed study of…
This paper laid the basis for a 'reformulation' of the theory of value, based on Marx's crucial but under-discussed observation in Chapter V of Capital Volume 1, in which he…
This collection responded to the first US attack on Iraq. Edited by Chaim Bresheeth and Nira Yural-Davis, it broached ideas that rose to prominence in subsequent critical thinking about International…
This paper reproduces, for archival purposes, chapter 5, of the same name, which appeared in Dunne (1991). It represents one of the first systematic attempts that I know of, to…
This paper establishes, and illustrates for the case of the UK, a temporal method for calculating the labour values of outputs from any process or sector of a market economy.…
Incomplete notes on the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the General Agreement on Trade and Services (GATS), with particular reference to legislation on Intellectual Property Rights
This article was published in a Capital and Class symposium on the 1987 crash. Its analysis retains its full force. It compared the 1987 and the 1929 crash, and explored…
This paper arose directly from the work which Paolo Giussani and I conducted, following the publication of Ricardo, Marx, Sraffa, at the request of Ernest Mandel and commissioned by the…
In 1986, following the publication of Ricardo, Marx, Sraffa, Alan Freeman and Paolo Giussani worked with Ernest Mandel on a project to provide data on the growth of poverty in…
