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The political economy

Stavros Mavroudeas (Macedonia): The History of Political Economy and Post-Modernism. From the latest issue of the Journal of World-Systems Research, a special section on Flows of Money and People in the World-System. From Economics and Political Weekly, class struggles, ideologies, economic transformations and colonialism: A review essay on Immanuel Wallerstein’s The Modern World-System series of books. From Review of International Political Economy, a review essay on the political economy of small states: Enduring vulnerability? From International Socialism, once more (with feeling) on Marxist accounts of the crisis: A review of Global Slump: The Economics and Politics of Crisis and Resistance by David McNally and Socialist Register 2011: The Crisis This Time; a review of The Crisis of Neoliberalism by Gerard Dumenil and Dominique Levy; and Guglielmo Carchedi goes behind and beyond the crisis. From Swans, a review of books by David Harvey. From New Left Review, against a backdrop of world economic slump, what forces will shape the outcome of contests between a raddled system and its emergent challengers?