How China’s BRI redraws the geopolitical map (Summit Magazine, 2017) Despite cautionary fears of China’s global ambitions, the rapidly industrializing communist republic’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) may be the single greatest development project in the history of the world. The BRI seeks to develop the necessary infrastructure to link China with other economic regions. […]
Author: Arnie
Parable of the Juggernaut
One of the slippery aspects about economics as a whole, is that for a discipline that holds as much power in human life as universal laws do for nature, economics is neither a science nor a philosophy. Mostly, it is a governing practice of human activity that is guided and moved as much by human […]
Rewriting Economic History
Rewriting Economic History From the perspective of a blogger/activist addressing the negative impact of globalization on people and ecological biodiversity, I recently considered organizing a campaigning group to explore one of the most fundamental and underutilized ways of addressing economic justice through National Accounting Systems. I’ve been occasionally writing about its historical and contemporary significance […]
Galactus and Indigestion
(the original version was posted March 2, 2011 in StatehoodHawaii.org) This isn’t a doom and gloom scenario by any means, rather, it is a radical shaking up of the neoliberal financial system where we will have to let the giants fail. This system is impossible to sustain and undoubtedly the US will be struggling to […]