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Here are some useful political economy links which I've compiled over the last couple of years. I don't necessarily agree with anything written in these pages, nor would I necessarily endorse the methodology behind any statistics or opinions quoted and/or expressed. I've tried to give readers as broad a range of viewpoints as possible. I hope you find them useful.

Anarchism                                                           AFL-CIO
The anarchist archives                                          Tobin tax links - how to regulate "hot" money
The Marx/Engels archive (out of action)                                      Shrinking Democracy
Global Crisis                                                        Unions in the US
The Internet as Hyperliberalism                             Reuters (guess who owns the forex infrastructure)
Structures of Nationalism                                      The foreign exchange "market"
Global Employment Trends                                    Rhetoric, Political Economy, and Narrative: Paul Turpin
The OECD                                                           10 Downing Street
The International Labor Organisation                     1999 Reith Lectures: Anthony Giddens
Paul Krugman's page (MIT Economist)                 The DNC (US Democrats backroom)
The United Nations                                               The New Democrats (US)
Britain and the Third Way                                      The Mainstream Democrats (US)
US Department of Labor                                       Child Slavery (which is, incidentally, on the increase)
John Quiggin (Always worth a read)                       The bubble project
The collapse of Wall street and a history lesson       iTulipTM.Com (Where you can find the best investment on the net)
The Economist                                                       The P.E.I. Propaganda Journal
The European Commission                                     Marx and Engels at Colorado (with a great search engine)
The IMF                                                                The World Trade Organisation (always good for a laugh)
Whitehouse Publications                                         The National Office for the Information Economy (Ha!)
Dr Helena Sheehan's home page
The American Prospect - A Reichian Organisation
International Labour Statistics - not so sweet

If there's anything you think ought to be on this page, please let me know. I have not included the Santa Fe Institute's work here. You can find it on any good search engine. Brian Arthur's work is especially interesting, but I'm not sure it fits the brief here. It's closer to econometrics than political economy. Interestingly, an econometrics professor recently described political economy as "an excuse for sloppy thinking" (unfortunately, for ethical reasons, I can't name names). However, the IMF's record suggests that a rigid and rigorous econometrics is not very good for studying even the most narrow aspects of social exchange. It is even less suited to futurology, which it claims to excel at (see Krugman or Quiggin, above). Presently, a  monkey is doing far better than the Chicago School at predicting prices, a narrow focus if there ever was one. This is an excellent, albeit indirect, indicator that a massive stock jobbing swindle is well underway throughout the world. Nothing new there ...

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